On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 8:53 AM James Knott via talk <[email protected] wrote:
> On 02/22/2019 07:18 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > The Ontario Electrical Safety Authority has recently ratified Power > > over Ethernet for domestic residential LED lighting and associated > > home control systems. I was just wondering if anybody on the list is > > using PoE for lighting and has any recommendations on which types of > > LED's are best for general use. I have a 45w grow light for an African > > violet but the light it casts gives a kind of institutional feeling. > > I'm not sure I'd want it everywhere. > > > > I live in apartment with older ceiling fixtures and currently screw-in > > compact fluorescent bulbs last a year or so before the transformer > > dies from voltage spikes. Ostensibly this is from being on the same > > sub-panel as switched loads, fans, ac and the fridge being the main > > culprits. > > > > Any suggestions and anecdotes are appreciated. > > > > PoE seems to be an expensive way to do this, as you'd need at least an > injector and power supply. Have you tried screw in LED lights? Before > Doug Ford became Premier, there'd be occasional rebates on them, where > you could buy the lights for about 50ยข. IIRC, he's killed that program, > to "save" taxpayer's money. > > Also, are you sure it's a tranformer that fails? AFIK, there's no > transformer in them, only some electronic circuit. There's not even the > inductive ballast that's common with fluorescent tubes. > Sorry, I should have said ballast equivalent circuit, whatever it is, the fixtures are old and I can't replace those. I'm really more interested in PoE for setting lighting times and intensity and also strategic placement of overhead strip and floorboard night lighting. Also I have a floor to ceiling nook area where I'd like to grow herbs. Its too irregular a shape for even adequate storage but a couple of shelves for basil etc. could fit nicely. I'd kind of be in violation of the fire code if I had a bunch of 110v cords running from wall outlets, so I'd thought I'd look at integrating my general lighting with grow lighting. If only to reduce the amount of tech I have to throw out periodically. It might be cost effective to replace the entire buildings lighting, but I don't see that happening any time soon. > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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