Assistance in C-Bus Wireless System

Yes, the C-Bus Wireless system is good

If you want recommendations of anything you'll need to supply a bit more about what you want to achieve, what you want to get out of it, etc.

Nick

 

A dimmer will control the brightness of a load, for example a lamp.

A switch just turns the load on and off.

If you want to do control for small areas, such as a living room, then you might be able to use cbus wireless in the most simple mode where all it does is allow control from a remote. This needs the smallest amount of programming (no commissioning software is needed at all).

This method of setup is good for simple room control, scenes, and so on.

If you want things to be more complex, where several devices control each other or where devices in one room control devices in another room, then you can do most of that using the push-button setup/programming, but if it gets really complicated then you can use the Cbus Toolkit software.

It all depends on what you want to do.

 

A dimmer can set the load to anything between fully on and fully off.

If you have a dimmer you DO NOT need another switch.

If you want to set the brightness, use a dimmer. This will also allow you to turn the lamp off.

If you just want to switch things on and off, use a switch.

NOTE that you CAN NOT use a dimmer to set the brightness of every lamp type. For example, you can't dim standard fluorescent strip lights. If you want to dim those you need a special dimmable ballast, and a DALi, DSI or 0-10V controller in cbus wired.

A cbus wireless switch will happily switch fluorescent strip light on and off.

It would help more if you posted what you want to do.

 

Dimmers will control the brightness of an incandescent lamp, and SOME compact fluorescent lamps.

Other fluorescent lamps need a special thingy to control them. This is the ballast, and they need a special one that allows dimming. These special ballasts usually have one of three possible control inputs: The DSI standard, the DALI standard, or an analogue voltage in the range 0-10 volts dc. Cbus wired has interface devices for each of these three standards.