A recent project highlighted the common mistakes made when wiring 1-10v DC analogue control. When wiring for DMX or Dali there is a widely accepted standard which can be followed but with 1-10v control there is no such standard I guess the thought is always but it’s so simple how can it go wrong! The [...]
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Control standards in Lighting
Aims This short document aims to present the common control standard used in the lighting industry today and give a short explanation of their development, uses, advantages and disadvantages. Introduction: Lighting can be switched on or of and it can be dimmed that is the light output of the lighting source varied to different levels [...]
Designing of the location of lighting controls:
I visit many very expensive developments programming lighting controls. When we are just contracted to do the programming we arrive on site after all the first fixing has been completed and sometimes even later than that at a very late stage when the project is near to completion. You can understand control panels for a [...]