WoW!!!! Thats going to be hard to beat for a residential Installation..... Frank
Yup. Until someone turns up a 5 million square metre site that just happens to have an attached "caretakers cottage" and decides to call it "residential".
I never ceases to amaze me how MANY of those big jobs are out there - well, in Sydney at least. The company where I previously worked focussed on lighting, and it was not uncommon to have $100K-$200K domestic orders coming every week or so. It was very rare for houses not to have full Control System etc, although we were actively involved in only a small proportion of the integration etc. God knows where these people get that sort of money from ! A couple of weeks back one of the reps brought in a project where the client bought a house for $12mill and before moving in decided on a $2million on a "decor update". A lot of that budget is to change all the marble floors to a different colour of marble
HPM iControl Thanks for that link to the 'Worlds Slowest Website' Ashleigh. It's amazing what iControl can do... It sounds like a great house, pity it's in Melbourne
Is it really IControl? I cannot find that anywhere! (And yes its slow to load... done with Flash by the look of it.) I know one of the neighbours to this place, and he tells me that its all C-Bus.
Melbourne House Great to see someone in Melbourne has built a big house. Places like this are a dime a dozen around the waterways in Sydney, I'm still trying to work out what the owners do for a job. I am slowly getting closer to working it out though. For starters I know for sure none of them do my job. PSC, you must be really busy on that big house of yours - up and into it at 4.44am. Thats dedication. Thats also how you get good at things
Just come across this thread a little late (about a year late!), but just thought I'd say hello as I have been involved directly or indirectly with some of the large UK projects mentioned in this thread (I can't talk about all of them but we did the SCADA for Manchester City and McLaren using C-Lution, and have more recently become involved with the C-Bus for both although we didn't do the original installation of them). I mention it only in case someone else is heading into a large project like that and had any specific questions. The only thing I can think to say is that the older C-Bus tools are a nightmare on a large project through CNIs (lots of messing around with Lantronix redirector when you have 30+ networks), and it's therefore a great shame that the new toolkit version of C-gate doesn't sit well with Citect/C-Lution. Otherwise C-Bus is a good tool for the job, as is Citect/C-Lution for the SCADA.
Any time soon? There seem to be two basic options: implement the CI functions (which only the Citect driver uses) in the new C-Gate versions, or modify the C-Gate/Citect driver to use "standard" C-Bus functions instead of the custom CI ones. Which method are you going with? (Or another I haven't thought of?) I'm working on a multi-network project now which would benefit from being able to run Citect and C-Bus tools at the same time, which I can't do as things stand; indeed I have to keep swapping between different C-Gate versions.
What sort of problems did you have with the new cgate and clution. I was under the impression that with the right compatibility switches on it should work fine.
