A Beginners Guide To DALI Lighting Controls

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DALI stands for Digital Addressable Lighting Interface, which is widely used in commercial buildings, schools, and hospitals for lighting controls. If you are an electrician who is new to installing or maintaining DALI-based lighting systems. Our series of videos can help you grasp wiring basics, how the protocol works, and its significance in saving energy.
This series is produced in association with Flex 7
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@efixx 3 ай бұрын

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@vitalii.mizeraka 3 ай бұрын

Same link to both video series?

@kennymills7442 3 ай бұрын

Ive just started as a commissioning engineer and currently doing a lot of training with one of the biggest players in the lighting controls market. Really interesting work.

@syproful 3 ай бұрын

knx and dali is a dream and the absolute standard for the last 10years in most premium houses. This is a great video.

@craigbuist4636 3 ай бұрын

DALI is great kit and installed in all of our projects. A lot of people don’t know about it which has always surprised me with all of its benefits. Great video guys.

@BATESYHD 3 ай бұрын

Work in one of the biggest shopping centres in Europe and it’s everywhere, really looking forward towards future videos!!!

@vitalii.mizeraka 3 ай бұрын

It's great that you've started series of videos with DALI. Your fan, boys! Fault finding with this system would be beneficial for your channel.

@anthonygirgis144 3 ай бұрын

great video! although i do not have an engineering background (stage lighting background) this video was super helpful to understand DALI

@pjcamp1on 3 ай бұрын

Not all Dali systems can handle 64 input devices, ie PIR's switch interfaces and scene plates so check with the system provider. Also Dali systems can have emergency monitoring so if you have a Dali fitting with a Dali driver and Dali inverter that fitting will count as 2 addresses of you 64.

@tombrown3533 3 ай бұрын

To get around LED dimming in a domestic setting ive used dali drivers for downlights and dimmed on a standard 1-10v dimmer. Works a treat. Even better the drivers went spare on the day job!

@noura4701 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great explanation and visuals! very helpful and entertaining at the same time

@efixx 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@davidclark3603 3 ай бұрын

Thank god I retire next year. I can't wait!!!!!

@sigmaballs_forever 3 ай бұрын

Ty man. It helped

@mpalaskokkalis1476 3 ай бұрын

Perfect 👌

@johnwaby4321 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@davidomeara4704 11 күн бұрын

Fantastic video

@efixx 18 сағат бұрын

Thanks! 😃

@calmeilles 3 ай бұрын

I've heard people complain that the DALI protocol is incredibly slow. Well compared with DMX that's true but at 1,200 baud it'll still be working 600 times faster than you can flick switches!

@glenwoofit 3 ай бұрын

Interesting

@steverob9895 3 ай бұрын

Any advice on fault finding or faulty components. We have a building with dali controls, 1 controller failed last year leaving the whole building in darkness,its taken ages to get parts as the system is an old one.

@stefanoberg8583 3 ай бұрын

The basic function of dali is the broadcast feature - in fault finding a dali power supply and a slider/rotary or the combo is a effective and basic way of testing - it will identify any loads that will not respond making it easier to identify the problem. Next step would be a pc software to connect and diagnose. Question what system do you have?

@Vikingza 3 ай бұрын

How would you install DALI lighting controls on lights in a house with a 3 phase incoming supply?

@davidclark3603 3 ай бұрын

How do we maintain this equipment? In a few years time, it is going to break down. Is the equipment standardized,or is it esoteric to each manufactures,? I. E. Can we just go to the van and get a new module?

@stefanoberg8583 3 ай бұрын

As many other things this depends on the original installation and they system being used - I have mostly used the Helvar router system and if a device goes missing ( breaks) and you connect a replacement the router will assume the new one is a replacement. This is a option you can disable. Honesty most time I just connect to the system and make sure any devices are programmed as intended, today I think this is true for most larger scale control systems.

@vincentbyrne5000 3 ай бұрын

Hi Guys do you know of any training concerning DALI

@snoopftw8448 3 ай бұрын

At 6:00 you said that the Dali signal isn't polarity sensitive. I can guarantee you that if you mix the polarity it will not work. I always use black as minus (like in dc) and grey as positive. If i add another light where i switch it to grey aas minus and black as positive it will not work, i know from experience having to open several lights to figure out which one the apprentice miswired.

@stefanoberg8583 3 ай бұрын

A Dali device that is not adding power to the system (led driver, panel, sensor, relay etc.) is not polarity dependent. It is only in the rare cases where you have two power supply then they needs to be connected to match polarity. Saying that I do agree that in any system having a consistent polarity as you said black as minus is best practise regardless of polarity sensitivity or not. Most manufacturers have +/- or D1/D2 printed on the connectors to aid installers with this. From your experience with fittings and problems with polarity it sounds like the drivers them self provides power to the system and yes then they must be connected with the same polarity.

@pedrosmits 3 ай бұрын

DALI combined with EIB/KNX is also an excellent solution.

@FirstDan2000 3 ай бұрын

My only gripe with Dali systems is the 6 pin plug. The pins are grouped into 2 groups of 3 - one part being black (the mains wiring) and one part being blue (the Dali wiring) BUT the blue part isn't only for Dali, it also has the permanent live. And as I recently had to correct far too many plugs incorrectly connected my gripe is really big. - Why did someone decide the blue part would have 3 terminals, why not just for the 2 Dali conductors? The flex7 plugs are better. You simply have to read the legend embossed into the lid.

@lumo2981 3 ай бұрын

Can you do a LUTRON guide next? Don’t blame you if you back heel the request 😂

@efixx 3 ай бұрын

Homework’s or Ra2 ?

@lumo2981 3 ай бұрын

@@efixx Quantum is the system I’m dealing with. One of their commercial lighting products

@Ironic1950 3 ай бұрын

Light circuits are invariably spur-wired, not ring circuits...

@brianpiddock6074 3 ай бұрын

What's wrong with DMX

@efixx 3 ай бұрын

Nothing but Dali had more flexibility for wiring.,

@syproful 3 ай бұрын

Baudrate is much slower, meaning you can bundel he data lines with the current wires. It's the best system there is because of this. It's balance of speed and reliability.

@mfx1 3 ай бұрын

@@syproful DMX is differential so can be run alongside conductor wires as well, many claim it's a bad ide but that's complete rubbish. The main issue with DMX is lack of error checking/correction, it's normally one way (unless you use RDM which is a clunky bodge) and doesn't have built in features for zone control. It's not specifically the baud rate with Dali but the fact that it uses fairly high voltage signalling (0-16v).