Domestic lighting controllers

[Matthew168]

Hi,
can anyone recommend a good lighting controller possibly 4 zone for general domestic use?
thanks

 

[D Skelton]

Lutron every time

 

[shocking_eg]

Lutron every time

+1

just fitted a 6 zone grafik eye to our living room

wicked bit of kit, USB configurable !

only issues is with min wattage of 40w per zone, prob is i want to use LED lamps !!

 

[D Skelton]

only issues is with min wattage of 40w per zone, prob is i want to use LED lamps !!

That's what caps are for, just don't tell the Part L police!

 

[glasgowsparky]

Lutron for me as well !

 

[decolad69]

Hi,
can anyone recommend a good lighting controller possibly 4 zone for general domestic use?
thanks

Yes, i would recommend a Futronix p400, they look great and i have installed them for 10 years and never had any problems with them.

 

[Matthew168]

Thanks for the advice, will look into the lutron tomorrow. Have fitted a futronix unit in the past but seem to remember it was quite pricey

 

[shocking_eg]

That's what caps are for, just don't tell the Part L police!

Hmm... I have seen they do load resistors
But that sort of defeats the object of using low energy led lamps

On two of my zones I'm only running at approx 20W

Not tried it yet though, it might work okay if I set the load type from resistive to capacitive in the config menu on the lutron panel ?
Thanks

 

[D Skelton]

Yeah, you're right it does kinda beat the objective of trying to be energy efficient. To be honest though, in smaller domestic settings if you are looking for energy efficiency you wouldn't be using Lutron would ya If you're looking for it to provide an energy efficient solution it only really comes into its own in larger commercial applications.

 

[Dohnut]

I would recommend Rako and the Rak4t systems, they can be both wired and wireless or a mix of both. They also have a great app for both Android and ios.

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