Hi,
Just wondering if anyone on H1 has installed the Clipsal star serve and is it any good as it is a hell of alot cheaper than C-Bus.
Cheers
Heath
Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Aug 29, 2011 2:58 am Re: Clipsal Star Serve 2Aug 29, 2011 10:33 am Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Clipsal Star Serve 4Aug 29, 2011 5:39 pm Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: Clipsal Star Serve 6Aug 29, 2011 10:39 pm Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: Clipsal Star Serve 7Aug 29, 2011 11:02 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Clipsal Star Serve 8Aug 30, 2011 9:28 pm Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: Clipsal Star Serve 10Aug 31, 2011 9:38 am Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Re: Clipsal Star Serve 12Aug 31, 2011 1:41 pm Kodiak Data Cabling onFaceBook Consult*, Design and Installation Data, TV, Home Theatre/ AV Cabling, Multi Room Audio, IP CCTV and Door Intercoms Ask for a Quote. *DIY DATA Cabling Is Ilegal Clipsal Star Serve 15Aug 31, 2011 4:45 pm Casa2 How can C-bus use less 240V wiring when everythign needs to be wired to a central point (or two) and back? That's more 240V wiring! Any given light is only wired back to a single point. You can have relay/dimmer units installed at several points in your house so that you don't need to run any given set of wires too far. Traditional wiring has power and earth running to each light fitting plus two wires running down to each switch. If you have multi-way switching then you need additional wires to link the switches. With C-Bus you run power to the relay/dimmers and then power and earth out to each light. No 240V switch wires and you can have as many switches as you want controlling a light. You won't save enough on your wiring to pay for C-Bus but most sparkys agree that wiring C-Bus is simpler than traditional wiring as there are fewer connections and loops. Paul |