Thread: Touch lamps and ceiling fans

Our new office building has (thanks to Mr Garret that bastard)

- environmentally friendly zone-sensing aircon. Great, except its an open plan building so it doesn't work very well. Doesn't cool a region til you've been there for about 10 minutes and it works out it needs to cool you.

- CBUS lighting throughout - techs on site almost daily to fix it .. it's rubbish. (Great in theory, rubbish in practice).

and on it goes.

None of it is very "smart" I can tell you.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Not a great endorsemnet of the "Intelligent House " that the nerds are trying to thrust upon us.
If we cannot get 2 lamps and a fan to work together what hope for turning the coffee on?

My fan is a remote one with a light. Hasn't done it recently but used to turn the light on at 12 or so at night. My theory is that it is the hot water turn on pulse. But it certainly wakes you up, sort of like sleep deprivation torture.

Regards Philip A

Our amp on the downstairs telly will turn itself on at random, change to the radio and stay on for 10 seconds or so, then just turn itself off again.
Freaks the crap out of ya when you're home alone!

Tell her to sleep on the lounge.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Our new office building has (thanks to Mr Garret that bastard)

- environmentally friendly zone-sensing aircon. Great, except its an open plan building so it doesn't work very well. Doesn't cool a region til you've been there for about 10 minutes and it works out it needs to cool you.

- CBUS lighting throughout - techs on site almost daily to fix it .. it's rubbish. (Great in theory, rubbish in practice).

and on it goes.

None of it is very "smart" I can tell you.

Here we go again,inverter A/c units,hybrid cars,heat pump hotwater
systms,the list goes on......

Highly complicated crap......to put it politely.

And it isn't just Garret,the Qld government is just as bad.Dunno the truth,but i believe we can't buy a normal simple electric hot water systm anywhere anymore,that is one with a heater & a t/stat.
And when you sell your house you have to have an energy audit?

Smart,they think,but we will all feel it in our pockets,for maybe very little gain


Anyway,hope you have got the lights & fans sorted

they put the intelligent sensing lights in the library of the new workshop.

its great the lights come on about 2 seconds after you enter the room and stay on for about 5 minutes.

then they go out and you have to back track out of the library room because the sensor cant see you over the top of the book shelves.