On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 8:53 AM James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org 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 50¢. 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.
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