RE: CBus v Flexidim

["Stephen Jones" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Certainly whatever make of kit is used it has to be reliable, but I
haven't
heard any bad reports of the Flexidim kit as yet. The name is a lot less
known compared to Clipsal but of course that doesn't mean its any worse.
Indeed I'm yet to be impressed with the build quality of the CBus kit. All
the cbus bits feel a bit cheap to me, whereas of course its far from cheap.

Has anyone here actually used the Flexidim kit? Just wondering how well the
user configuration app works?

Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Raymond Kelly
Sent: 21 March 2006 14:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CBus v Flexidim

Lighting and heating are part of the infrastructure of a building so
when I think of those 2 items I would rather use as
mainstream/reliable as possible, as I do also look at the possible
future saleability.
Clipsal are well known and CBus is a quality product and also reliable.
I basically went with CBus because of the quality of the components
and liked the switches especially.
The flexdim rather look like the Rako ones - which I've seen in the
flesh and is just not the same quality at all.
I also looked at Lutron - but too expensive.

On 21/03/06, Stephen Jones <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone here looked much into comparing CBus & Flexidim?
>
> The Flexidim kit is cheaper and if you don't want integration with
other
> systems it seems to be a pretty descent cheaper option to CBus, but
still
> giving most of the functionality.
>
> http://www.simplyautomate.co.uk/GuideToLighting.asp?Cat1=49
>
> I don't see much on the SimplyAutomate site pointing out the downsides
of
> Flexidim compared to CBus, but surely there are some?
>
> Some ppl I meet def do not like the look of the Neo switches and
aren't
too
> fussed on the Saturns either, and actually prefer the look of the
Flexidim
> kit.
>
> And one thing that sounded good was that the Flexidim kit has a User
> Configuration Utility - http://www.jclighting.com/page11.html.
Allowing
the
> user to re-configure button functions easily. To do this with Cbus you
> obviously need an expensive PCI (or similar) and a fair bit of
knowledge
> into the CBus programming.