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Re: Comfort Questions



Hi Rob
            Actually speal to Mark Mc C  Clipsal said to him that they
should be arriving in the UK soon . They were to contact Mark and let him
know.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Comfort Questions


> Thanks Frank
>
> They look ideal. Any idea of distributors? I phone Clipsal and they did
> not know!!!! I'm waiting for someone from Clipsal to ring me.
>
>
> Many Thanks
> Rob
> Rob Mouser
> rmouser@xxxxxxx > rob@xxxxxxx >
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:armagh@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 July 2002 08:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Comfort Questions
>
>
> Hi Rob            Did you know Clipsal have brought out a new range of
> switches . Have a look .
> www.clipsalneo.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Ukha (E-mail)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:23 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Comfort Questions
>
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > Well I'm getting there! The barn is nearly complete (Well at least the
> > ground floor anyway!).
> >
> > All my lighting is in (8 independently wired zones for Lounge and
> > Dinning room)
> > CAT5 to everywhere I can think off (4 points per socket, 2 sockets per
> > room. And 2 points to where you would normally have light switches.)
> > CAT5 to ceiling corners of room for PIR's and/or IR receivers.
> > Audio cable to ceiling points in each room, plus hard wired points in
> > the living room for full surround sound.
> >
> > After trawling this group, countless web sites and much more I finally
> > decided on the C-bus system and Comfort for main control, its all on
> > order (Although Comfort seem to have quite a few back order issues and
> > may be a few weeks before the whole order arrives.) so the real fun of
> > wiring node zero and programming is soon to start.
> >
> > As far as whole house audio is concerned I've plumped for the
> > Speakercraft Easy6 Pre-amp (www.speakercraft.com) with a clutch of
> Arcam
> > Power Amps to drive the 6 stereo zones. The 6 sources will be, Tuners
> x
> > 2, CD x 1, MD x 1 and 2 x Audiotrons (Thanks Tony!). The Speakercraft
> > Easy6 has a built in zoned IR distribution system (I.e. 6 IR inputs
> > (From each zone) and 6 outputs (To source equipment), its fully
> routable
> > so different sources can play in each zone or party mode etc.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > I don't want to have to have 2 lots of IR receivers if I can help it
> (1
> > set for the comfort control and 1 set for the Easy6) is their any way
> > Comfort could be configured to forward IR from the zones to the Easy
> 6?
> > Two reasons why; cost and I want my automation to be VERY discrete.
> >
> > Also, I've been struggling with what to use for general control of
> > lighting (and possibly some comfort automation controls) in each room.
> I
> > really don't like the Comfort keypads I think they're a bit ugly (I
> will
> > have just 1 in the hall though.)
> > I like the wall plates supplied with such as the QED Systemline and
> also
> > the Polaron units, nice, modern with small illuminated buttons. Is
> there
> > anywhere I can get custom versions of this type of thing? Even if they
> > were RS232 I could link them to a comfort UCM.
> > At the moment I may just plump for a single gang clipsal plate with 4
> or
> > 5 momentary switches to give me some basic scene setting, surely
> though
> > there must something that can give me greater functionality?
> >
> > Look forward to your replies.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
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