Hi All,
For those who have looked down the GU10 LED lighting route, I would hazard a guess that at some point other than Megaman lamps etc, one would have come across Philips MasterLEDs.
Generally speaking my research pointed that this was probably the most mature, and the only really proven good working LED solution (unfortunate as the lamps are more commercial in nature, and therefore a bit expensive).
Going with this however, Idratek have been testing post call out to them about taking on compatibility with these bulbs (currently not all dimmers either HA or otherwise, are necessarily compatible).
I'm pleased to say though, since late last year when I first called it out, the Idratek team have looked into it and have developed a compatible firmware for the QLD dimmers.
Having now deployed on a larger scale (60-80) bulbs, initial results look to confirm that Idratek QLD dimmers can now be considered another compatible dimmer with these bulbs.
FYI for those who are considering the same.
The only tips are:
- currently the QLDs have been derated by the same amount as Danlers dimmers ie hte 7W bulbs equate to a 50W in the calcs (ie 4x bulbs per QLD channel)
- as a backup solution, you could consider using Danlers RESLOAD product on non QLD firmware upgraded dimmers, which also work (indeed Danlers RESLOADs being a product which I think might be able to bring compatibility with any non compatible dimmer)
Cheers,
Marcus
For those who have looked down the GU10 LED lighting route, I would hazard a guess that at some point other than Megaman lamps etc, one would have come across Philips MasterLEDs.
Generally speaking my research pointed that this was probably the most mature, and the only really proven good working LED solution (unfortunate as the lamps are more commercial in nature, and therefore a bit expensive).
Going with this however, Idratek have been testing post call out to them about taking on compatibility with these bulbs (currently not all dimmers either HA or otherwise, are necessarily compatible).
I'm pleased to say though, since late last year when I first called it out, the Idratek team have looked into it and have developed a compatible firmware for the QLD dimmers.
Having now deployed on a larger scale (60-80) bulbs, initial results look to confirm that Idratek QLD dimmers can now be considered another compatible dimmer with these bulbs.
FYI for those who are considering the same.
The only tips are:
- currently the QLDs have been derated by the same amount as Danlers dimmers ie hte 7W bulbs equate to a 50W in the calcs (ie 4x bulbs per QLD channel)
- as a backup solution, you could consider using Danlers RESLOAD product on non QLD firmware upgraded dimmers, which also work (indeed Danlers RESLOADs being a product which I think might be able to bring compatibility with any non compatible dimmer)
Cheers,
Marcus
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