Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

Thanks

FirstTimer wrote:
Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

Thanks

There aren't any in my experience. Bloody loud aren't they when mounted on
plasterboard?
They have to have a strong spring action to open the contacts quickly so I
suppose there is not way to avoid it...

"FirstTimer" wrote
| Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
| near silent please?

You could try a Dimpull
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/TLPCD51.html
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technica...er/Dimpull.htm

Also says it is suitable for use with bathroom fans.

Haven't used it myself.

Or google for the thread "touch sensitive light switches for bathroom", late
October this year.

Owain

FirstTimer wrote:

Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?



Oh. Thats easy. Just make the cord about a mile long, put the switch in
the next parish, and route the lot back with some T & E....

:-)


Thanks

BillR wrote:

FirstTimer wrote:

Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

Thanks


There aren't any in my experience. Bloody loud aren't they when mounted on
plasterboard?
They have to have a strong spring action to open the contacts quickly so I
suppose there is not way to avoid it...




How about cord wrapped round a dimmer switch, with a spring return :-)

In uk.d-i-y, FirstTimer wrote:
Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

They *used* to be much quieter - ISTM that the noisy ones were
introduced a couple of decades ago. I don't like them either. You could
buy an older house, but make sure that in the contract it says that they
have to leave the light switches.

--
Mike Barnes

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Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

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I bought one from B&Q several years ago, it's not completely silent but
close to it. I don't know if they still do it though.

ferret

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Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

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Hasn't anyone produced a pneumatic one? Seems obvious technology for the
job.

I had thought of getting one of the radio controlled switches for the job -
but seems a bit of an expensive solution.

Rod

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Hasn't anyone produced a pneumatic one? Seems obvious technology for the
job.

I had thought of getting one of the radio controlled switches for the job
- but seems a bit of an expensive solution.

Rod

Yes, they are for turning lights off after a delay period.

Dave

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And you were born knowing all about ms windows....??

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Yes, they are for turning lights off after a delay period.

Dave


??? I think that this does what I want.

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/produ...C+Catalogue&ca
tegory%5Fname=Electrical%2C+Security+and+Test+%2D+ Mains+Electrical+Accessor
ies+%2D+Home+Automation&product%5Fid=261672

http://tinyurl.com/xxab

Rod

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??? I think that this does what I want.

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/produ...C+Catalogue&ca
tegory%5Fname=Electrical%2C+Security+and+Test+%2D+ Mains+Electrical+Accessor
ies+%2D+Home+Automation&product%5Fid=261672

http://tinyurl.com/xxab

Rod

The link is broken. Anyway what you want is a Pneumatic delay switch from
any electrical wholesalers, but they are quite expensive, I think around
£15.

Dave

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And you were born knowing all about ms windows....??

The link is broken. Anyway what you want is a Pneumatic delay switch from
any electrical wholesalers, but they are quite expensive, I think around
£15.

Dave

Now I've written that, I am not so sure that is what your after. Anyway go
look at one and you will see what it does.

Dave

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And you were born knowing all about ms windows....??

Dave Stanton wrote in
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Now I've written that, I am not so sure that is what your after.
Anyway go look at one and you will see what it does.

Dave


Dave - I am now with you! My blinkers prevented me from reading what you
had written. I was taking your comment to be about the remote switching
things - not pneumatic ones. Yes - the old switches that give you not quite
long enough to get upstairs in shared property.

My mind is definitely on something like the pneumatic cistern flush buttons
- but controlling the light. Unfortunately, no else's seems to be,
especially manufacturers.

Rod

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At the Ideal Home show at the beginning of the year there was a
company (sorry don't have the details) exhibiting an RF extension
switch to convert a one-way switch to two-way operation. Basically you
replaced a single switch with a radio controled one and then had a
little battery powered transmitter that looked like a second switch
for two-way operation. The idea was that this could be mounted next to
a bed without having to put in all the wiring. Being battery operated
it could be used in the bathroom as an alternative to a pull switch.

To be really tounge in cheek mount another about 12" from the end of
the bath so you can turn the lights on and off while wallowing in
bubbles. If nothing else it would be interesing to see if a
purchaser's surveyor made any comment when you came to sell ;-)

Andrew