Assistance in C-Bus Wireless System

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

Hi, would you guys be able to tell me what products should I go for? Is C-Bus Wireless System good?

[NickD]

Yes, the C-Bus Wireless system is good :)

If you want recommendations of anything you'll need to supply a bit more about what you want to achieve, what you want to get out of it, etc.

Nick

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

Thanks NickD! what's your reccomendations?

[ICS-GS]

If you want recommendations of anything you'll need to supply a bit more about what you want to achieve, what you want to get out of it, etc.

Are you looking to use it in:


Your Shed
Home theatre
kitchen
bedroom

And what sort to *things* are you looking to control?

Hard to suggest what is the right fit for you if you don't know what you are trying to achieve.

There is also the possibility the *wired* c-bus may be the best fit for you.

Hope this helps

Grant

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

hmm, thank you. i got what u meant.
erm, i wish to control my living room, bedroom and bathroom.
how do i go about doing it?

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

what is the difference between a dimmer unit and a switch unit?:)

[ashleigh]

A dimmer will control the brightness of a load, for example a lamp.

A switch just turns the load on and off.

If you want to do control for small areas, such as a living room, then you might be able to use cbus wireless in the most simple mode where all it does is allow control from a remote. This needs the smallest amount of programming (no commissioning software is needed at all).

This method of setup is good for simple room control, scenes, and so on.

If you want things to be more complex, where several devices control each other or where devices in one room control devices in another room, then you can do most of that using the push-button setup/programming, but if it gets really complicated then you can use the Cbus Toolkit software.

It all depends on what you want to do.

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

hmm, ok. that means if i get a dimmer unit i cant so a switch off function for my lamp? so which means i need both a dimmer unit and switch unit to be able to dim or switch off lamps?

[ashleigh]

A dimmer can set the load to anything between fully on and fully off.

If you have a dimmer you DO NOT need another switch.

If you want to set the brightness, use a dimmer. This will also allow you to turn the lamp off.

If you just want to switch things on and off, use a switch.

NOTE that you CAN NOT use a dimmer to set the brightness of every lamp type. For example, you can't dim standard fluorescent strip lights. If you want to dim those you need a special dimmable ballast, and a DALi, DSI or 0-10V controller in cbus wired.

A cbus wireless switch will happily switch fluorescent strip light on and off.

It would help more if you posted what you want to do.

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

i dun really get what u mean by needing the special dimmable balast.
would u mind to further explain about the dimmable balast?
and i saw that dimmer there's 2 kind, one is leading edge dimmer and the other one is trailing edge dimmer. what are the difference between these 2 dimmers?

thanks!

[ashleigh]

Dimmers will control the brightness of an incandescent lamp, and SOME compact fluorescent lamps.

Other fluorescent lamps need a special thingy to control them. This is the ballast, and they need a special one that allows dimming. These special ballasts usually have one of three possible control inputs: The DSI standard, the DALI standard, or an analogue voltage in the range 0-10 volts dc. Cbus wired has interface devices for each of these three standards.

[yvonnego@ymail.com]

icic, u said only cbus wired has interface device for the three standards you mentioned, how about cbus wireless?
some compact fluorescent? perhaps you might want to quote an example of which CFL it cant control?
what is the difference between a trailing edge dimmer an leading edge dimmer?