Re: CBus power usage

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just out of interest what does the current consumption show for your
network John ? It's shown if you click on the network in Toolkit. Mine's
600ma over 45 units which is 18W.  I haven't actually measured the whole
C-Bus draw though which will add in the mains losses.

K

Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Wow - that's quite surprising ..  I had always thought of the
> infrastructure consumption as insignificant.  100W at just over 30
volts
> would be 3A on the C-Bus cabling... .  Sounds a lot - I wonder how
much
> is  mains level leakage through the dimmers / mains powered units..
> I'll have to take a look at the module specs.
>
> K
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> John Benfield wrote:
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>> I have 12 CBus DIN modules (a range of relays, dimmers, a CNI and
a
>> PAC) plus 12 or so keypads and a couple of PIRs. This lot, without
any
>> lights turned on, constantly draws 100w. When spread across all of
>> these devices, I guess that per device the power usage isn't too
bad
>> however ....
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