Recent content by Stormy

Just to follow-up on what I decided to do... After countless hours of research and reflection, I went with Lutron. I was fortunate enough to get a deal on the two most expensive components (top of the line 8-series processor new in the box for $1750 and eight dimming modules [incandescent...

As a relative newbie to HA, I've browsed hundreds of sites over the past two years in preparation of doing an all-out DIY system. We're talking from-scratch with relays to Crestron/AMX. I've considered it all. When you don't know much about HA and haven't discovered the boards like this where...

Lighting has been put on hold for the summer (which can be short here in Minnesota) - my wife has me building the ultimate kids playhouse... but that's for another thread (though it will have lighting and security tied into the house!). I'm in the process of getting a Lutron quote - I found...

Which switches did you go with? Are you happy with them? Also, did you terminate all your cat5 runs or did you run them to a block and patch from there?

Did a little more poking around at touchplate, and noticed the cutsheet directory doesn't have a default doc which makes it easy to see all cutsheets:) http://www.touchplate.com/cutsheets/ What I found interesting is that the cutsheet for the Mystique keypad says the caps can be engraved...

Yep, those are the switches. Like I mentioned, they're similar, but not exactly the same. The backplate is a bit different. I looked in my Worthington catalog, and they are called "Ultra" and "Mystique". Though they don't explicity call them "Centralite" controls in the catalog, they are...

I'm going to ramble, because I've been researching and on the fence about what to do with my lighting for almost two years. A little background: We have 2400 sq ft that has been remodeled so far. Everything is homerunned (about 36 loads) and all keypad locations have a Cat5e and 18/8 (to keep...