10 volt dimming

[stew]

Been off the forum for a long while due to health issues. Back in the saddle again.
Just did a large retrofit of 30 year old troffers.120 units.
The technology has ran past this old fart. Does anyone know of an inexpensive way to dim these buggers. The normal way of course woukd be a driver on the first fixture of 6 in a room and low voltage wiring. With a retro and Mc feeds to all the switches it's a bugger. Any ideas besides 175 $ worth of parts? No real way to feed the low voltage. No emt. .only eat is the feed to the first j box in the array.

 

[AC\DC]

If you have access, Lutron makes a power pack that you can dim that way

 

[stew]

Yes but they are very spendy and in a retrofit without emt to the switch there is not a good way to get the low voltage wire up to the dimmer driver.

 

[stew]

Gonna call lutron am.

 

[AC\DC]

Yes but they are very spendy and in a retrofit without emt to the switch there is not a good way to get the low voltage wire up to the dimmer driver.

I have a power pack in my office that you just run the dimming 10 V to each fixture and you just pico control the dimmer so you don’t need to run a cable from the controller to the power pack. It’s all wireless.

 

[stew]

These are in classrooms. We now have just set them to thier lowest lumens and wattage. Should be simple to control a circuit that only draws about 300 watts per classroom without having to use Bluetooth to do.it. cmon lutron. Figure this out for less than around 220$ per room! Lol

 

[stew]

Just seems that electronically a wireless controller of a triac type power supply using a wireless dimmervand an on off switch in each room should be simple
NOT!

 

[hbiss]

Figure this out for less than around 220$ per room!

You are asking for magic but don't want to pay for it! Why do you have to dim them anyway?

-Hal