Re: CBUS and CFL's

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW ... four-pin fluorescents with electronic ballasts would be
dimmable
/ fully controllable with Idratek ... so I guess they would be with
C-Bus, too ... ???

Chris



Jonathan Tawn @ Home wrote:

>I've been flicking through an osram catalogue online and notice that
the 4
>pin ones look very 'commerical' (because they are)
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>A quick cbus related note (if this goes ahead i'll be getting myself on
the
>cbus course - and my current Clipsal literature is in the office at the
>moment) does cbus just require a live or a neutral & live to dim?
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>The client is thinking of wiring 'normally' with extra wiring going to
a
>cabinet on each floor which can then be adapted to fit cbus at a later
>date... if that makes sense? As i understand it, he'll need to wire
each
>circuit back to each proposed cbus cabinet along with wiring done
normally?
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>Thanks,
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>Jonathan
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>Chris Hunter
>Sent: 17 January 2007 20:50
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CBUS and CFL's
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>AIUI ... to dim fluorescent's, they need to have four pins & to be
>operated at high frequency ... the usual compact fluorescents aren't
>like this ..
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>Chris
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>Jonathan Tawn @ Home wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I've been talking with someone who's building a house and they've
been told
>>that compact fluorescent's need to be used for downlighters, he
asked about
>>clipsal's CBUS asking whether it would dim them, which, I
understand it
>>should. However, I know next to nothing about CFL's / Fluorescent
dimming,
>>can this be done? If so, is it a case of using a 0-10v fluorescent
dimmer?
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>>Any thoughts / comments would be most appreciated,
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>>Thanks,
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>>Jonathan
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