Re: Re: xPL/xAP an alternative to C-Bu$ ?

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Except for something I built... but thats another story!
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Stop teasing .....Some Pics Please ;-))) and info...

BTW...Whats happening with HomeBrain ????
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 9:28 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: xPL/xAP an alternative to C-Bu$ ?


> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Frank Mc Alinden"
<fmcalind@b...>
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> >Not 100% on this but maybe you could use the Clipsal
> > Dimmers and use  xPL-CGATE ....Would need to be some xPL
> > enabled switch inputs and these could generate xPL-CBUS
> > commands
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> Yes, Frank, you could, but the quality and reliability of the CBus
> system is due top the fact it is a system.  Take the switches out
> (and Gareth is right, they ain't cheap, even though they are pretty)
> and you are left with some fairly average dimmers with a horrible
> proprietry interface, that still cost quite a lot of dosh.
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> Whereas, a DMX512 4 channel 1K (5A) per channel, will drive anything
> including halogens, neon and even power tools, is under 100 quid.
> Granted, they are physicallt bigger, and in an uglier form factor
> than din rail, but once they are screwed up around the place, all
> that is forgotten.
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> There are other "systems", lutron, dynalite, EIB for
example, but my
> experience to date is that they are not a million miles in pricing
> from CBus.
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> Which leaves X10, which is cheap, unreliable and relatively
> incapable, but it is affordable.
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> The problem is that there is nothing in between.
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> Except for something I built... but thats another story!
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