Kdog76
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1st- my thread should have read UPB, not USB.
I've got a church that had an addition put on 10+ years back, and we have a light switching issue. The addition, mostly office spaces & classroom) is attached to the side. This addition has grade level access with a basement portion below. At the front of the church, at a side isle there's a door that joins to the new addition. Here's the problem, there were never any 3-ways put in between the church lights over to this doorway in the addition. SO, when the the lights are off in the church, and they are leaving the new addition to go into the church, there is no switch to get the isle lights on. (which is what they want.)
Okay, IMO big oversight on the guys who wired it.
They don't want me to use a RF remote switch (distance of 100 ft+) not really line of sight, but close.
Instead of wiring the 3-ways across the basement, which probably could be done, but would very labor intensive (which is maybe why they didn't do it at first), they want me to look into this UPB style switch.
They are looking at a US-1140W switch from an online company http://www.simply-automated.com . Part of a UPB system that I not that familiar with at all. He want me to tap into a nearby outlet to feed a switch that would send pulses across the phases to be picked up by a remote switch. Never put in anything like that before, so any tips on this kind of install would be appreciated.
what do you guys think?
I've got a church that had an addition put on 10+ years back, and we have a light switching issue. The addition, mostly office spaces & classroom) is attached to the side. This addition has grade level access with a basement portion below. At the front of the church, at a side isle there's a door that joins to the new addition. Here's the problem, there were never any 3-ways put in between the church lights over to this doorway in the addition. SO, when the the lights are off in the church, and they are leaving the new addition to go into the church, there is no switch to get the isle lights on. (which is what they want.)
Okay, IMO big oversight on the guys who wired it.
They don't want me to use a RF remote switch (distance of 100 ft+) not really line of sight, but close.
Instead of wiring the 3-ways across the basement, which probably could be done, but would very labor intensive (which is maybe why they didn't do it at first), they want me to look into this UPB style switch.
They are looking at a US-1140W switch from an online company http://www.simply-automated.com . Part of a UPB system that I not that familiar with at all. He want me to tap into a nearby outlet to feed a switch that would send pulses across the phases to be picked up by a remote switch. Never put in anything like that before, so any tips on this kind of install would be appreciated.
what do you guys think?
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