RE: LON Lighting control

[Shane Harrison <shane.harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Neil,

LON has of course been successful in the industrial environment but has
struggled to get a hold in the domestic one - at least here in NZ and
Australia.  Clipsal has been much more successful. The nice thing about
LON of course was in theory it is multisourced rather single sourced as
is Clipsal.  Problem is that it is quite expensive.

As for connecting other kit - I know that a do it yourself solution is
out of the question.  IIRC the development kit required to do it was
around 10-20K USD !!!  LON has a concept of a 'neuron' - maybe someone
has a product that is a generic gateway ie. LON to serial, I wouldn't be
surprised.

Cheers
Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Fuller [mailto:neil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2004 9:15 a.m.
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
>
>
> Thanks Frank
>
> That's quite interesting, my company has a tie up with
> Schneider here in the UK so I'll explore what they have to offer.
>
> More importantly, my main concern is how to integrate LON
> based products with other kit.
>
> I have Comfort installed for security and Trend for HVAC. I
> can integrate Trend and LON using Plexus but as for
> integrating with other kit such as SliMP3 etc, I think I'll
> get a bit lost!
>
> Does anyone else on the list use LON?
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
>
>
> > Hi Neil
> >             Have a look here....its a Newzealand company
> now owned by
> > Scheinder who use lon i believe..........
> >
> http://www.schneider-electric.com.au/Products/WiringAccessories/ebos.h
> > tm
> >
> > HTH
> > Frank
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:42 AM
> > Subject: [ukha_d] LON Lighting control
> >
> >
> > > I've come across a very cheap source of Phillips lighting
> > > controllers
> > which are LONmark compatible.
> > >
> > > Despite having been in the BMS industry for 15 years, I've
never
> > > played
> > with LON.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any views on using LON in the domestic
environment?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Neil
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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