Intelligent Lighting

[Irish Mick]

Evening all.

I have been asked by a Company, to install the feeds to a new intelligent lighting system for a customer. The system will be installed by the separate company.

Having spoken to them, I understand how the feeds differ from a conventional radial circuit, my issue is the initial testing. The feeds from 2 or 3 MCB's at the CU, go out via a module for the lighting system, to each of the legs being controlled.

Is it as simple as choosing the circuit within the specific MCB and measuring this for each and every leg? Pardon my ignorance please.

 

[Plonker 3]

Anyone got any popcorn?

 

[Marvo]

It very much depends on the particular lighting system. We've installed DALI systems where all the light fittings are supplied directly on a radial and they're all independently addressable on the comms side from the central control. I'm not sure how your system is configured but it sounds different.

 

[Rockingit]

OK......I'm going to make a guess here as there's several possible options. You've got a feed from the source > [control box/dimmer being installed by others] > lights on cables 1st fixed by you.

You do the normal collection of tests on anything that will have 230 applied to it, and ignore everything else.

 

[Guest77]

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