Re: CBus v Flexidim

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

don't think I'd not heard of Flexidim before, presumably because it's
pretty much lighting they focus on ... although relay units clearly
allow more than just that ... looks interesting ... and another to add
to what turns out to be quite a long list of system options !

Price comparisons seem difficult to do, because each system builds in
its own way ... 'would not be surprised if they all turned out not so
very different when whole systems were costed ... EIB always looks
expensive, for example, but the individual modules tend to be pretty
comprehensive ...

Chris

(about to send a letter off to Idratek to get things started ... )



Stephen Jones wrote:

> 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