Dim the lights !

The use of dimming within a lighting design is commonplace today. Often, modern designs use many more lights in a room than would have been common a few years ago, arranged on different circuits so that they can be controlled independently.

For instance, uplighters might be on one circuit, a central feature light on another, spots on another, and so on.

In order to create the desired ambience, it is necessary to set the lights on each circuit to a different brightness level; this is done by using a dimmer. The simplest form of dimming is the wall-mounting manual rotary or slider type; a row of these can be installed on the wall, and manually adjusted.

The disadvantages of these simple dimmers are obvious;

• a row of dimmers on the wall can look ugly
• they are tedious to manually adjust
• if different “scenes” are desired for different activities (e.g. party, dining, cleaning, watching TV, reading) this is difficult to reproduce each time

Instead, Hometronic can be used to automatically control the lighting level of each circuit. Lights can be set to different levels on a timed basis, or made part of a Hometronic Lifestyle.

The Wireless Remote Control handset can be used to dim individual circuits, or to set a “scene”. Signals can be taken from your Intruder Alarm, so that different actions could happen in the event of, say, the alarm being triggered – all the lights could be brought to full brightness.