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  • Re: Siting the webbricks etc.

    PELV - protected extra low voltage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_low_voltage
    Posted to WebBrick Controller (public) (Forum) by engineering.team on 07-22-2008

  • Re: Siting the webbricks etc.

    In terms of siting, its best to have the consumer unit at the top, followed by the dimmer packs followed by the WebBrick and then the patching. In this way you keep the PELV furthest from the mains. Keep in mine your colour schemes as well and remember to mark the outside of the enclosure with a note to say both mains and PELV are present. Regards Andy
    Posted to WebBrick Controller (public) (Forum) by andy.harris on 07-22-2008

  • Re: Siting the webbricks etc.

    I was a little confused I think. most of the lighting will be 12vDC mr16. I was thinking that the ac->dc conversion happens near the brick, whereas I now understand that the dimmers are mains->mains and it will be the local (to the mr16's) transformers that will do the final coversion. The added confusion was when I tried to look for mr16...
    Posted to WebBrick Controller (public) (Forum) by ian.shaw on 07-21-2008

  • Re: Siting the webbricks etc.

    In your original post, it said you were worried about the dc drop over long disntances, but by the sounds of it, most of your lighting is AC. Having everything centralised wouldn't really have any problems in this case.
    Posted to WebBrick Controller (public) (Forum) by Richard.Pugh on 07-21-2008

  • Re: Slimserver & itouch

    Hi Paul, I've tried (and continue) to use iPeng on the itouch/iphone, there is talk of them going native which is pretty essential as in my book the web verison is too slow to be wife proof, I know she would get fed up waiting for the pages to load. as there is a decent api, it should be very easy to drive from the brick/gateway and to me it looks...
    Posted to Interfacing with others (public) (Forum) by ian.shaw on 07-15-2008
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