I ended up buying a "TED 1000": www.theenergydetective.com I'm quite happy with it. It works well, it's well made, reasonably priced, and quite accurate (within 1-2% of my electric meter). It consis
efforts not to leave them on by mistake :-) My stairs to the second floor and the upstairs hall has a long string of high hat lights with four switches to control it. It is NINE lamps at 75 Watts ea
One of the things I've been looking for is a way to put a timer on lights. Not a schedule type timer, but a "shut off after 15 minutes" type of thing. Philips used to have "IQ" light bulbs with this
A lot of the "occupancy sensor" type switches have exactly this feature with the benefit that they will sense if you're in the space and not turn of the lights until some time after you've left. Sear
You can get switches that have a motion detector built in. That might make sense for you. Leviton also make wall switches with timers, though i don't know if they go that short. -- David Scheidt dmsc
Problem with the switch type occupancy sensors is that many of my switches don't really point at where the occupant (me) will be. I think there are some ceiling mount types. Perhaps that would be a p
Can that one interface to a computer? -Steve _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk
How about a simple spring-wound timer? I use those in a bunch of places, most notably the bathroom fan. They fit where a normal wallswitch goes. _______________________________________________ Shop-
I tried using a couple of those motion detector switches with my garage lights, but gave up. There were several problems: 1: Many electronic light switches do not get along with fluorescent bulbs. My
I use one of them for my bathroom fan too. Works great. Problem is that cranking a knob to turn on lights isn't going to cut it. I want to retain my original toggle switch style, or very close. Also,
It has a USB port that drives a common USB-to-serial interface chip for which drivers are readily available. They have not published any interface details, but they are supposed to soon. Here is more
That would be cool to be able to interface with my MRTG graphs! Have you installed the monitor yet? What do you think of it? Marc It has a USB port that drives a common USB-to-serial interface chip f