Re: Remote light switch - halogen

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

matthew.larkin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi
>
> I live in a late Victorian house with some oddly placed light
>switches.  I'd like to "move" a light switch without having to chase
>cable from the (newly decorated!) room so that I can resite the switch
>on the opposite side of the room.
>
>I'm imagining a product which has an RF receiver in place of the old
>switch and then a battery operated new switch which I can just attach
>on the wall where I want the new switch.
>
>I've run up against a couple of problems:-
>1 - I can't find such a product!
>2 - I have a halogen light fitting with a 12v transformer as the
>lighting in the room.
>
>Changing the light fitting for a "normal" on is certainly an option, so
>I'm left with problem 1.  Even an IR unit would be OK-ish if I could
>find one that had a stick on switch instead of a remote-control sytle
>switch.
>
>X10 looks fun (ish!) if someone could point me in the right direction
>to start with.  I've seen a switch (AW10U) which seems part of the
>answer, so if someone could let me know what I would need to pair this
>with to create a working scenario I'd be grateful.
>
>I've googled for many an hour without coming up with the right answer!
>
>btw, I'm in the UK if that helps.

There are numerous RF operated light and appliance modules available in
Europe although I'm not sure whether any (other than Jung) offer battery
operated switches.

There are links to several 433.92MHz RF systems on this page...

     http://davehouston.net/prontopro.htm

Some of the links are probably outdated but the product names may be worth
searching for what you need.

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