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Default Wireless switches for lights - recommendations?

Rod Speed wrote:


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Roger Hayter wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:

Fredxx wrote
Rod Speed wrote

It uses kinetic energy to send a wifi signal to the base.

You were doing well until this point.

That's what it does. No battery no wires.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Per...Synthetics/dp/
B0748MQWP3/ref=dp_ob_title_light

I'd prefer to call it mechanical rather then kinetic energy, without
further information. But perhaps he was suggesting that Wifi was not
really an appropriate radio protocol for the purpose?

All the makers and sellers of them call them kinetic for some strange
reason.


Thats because thats what they are. They dont use the static force
of the finger on the button, they use the movement of the button.

Use of kinetic energy would be use of energy from slowing down
something that's already in motion. Turning a handle or pushing a
lever is simply 'work' as in force x distance.

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