CPD - Dali

Dali

Seminar ref: 117

 Dali has become the world’s leading dimming technology and has resulted in lighting control and management systems being applied to a much wider range of project types than was previously the case.

This detailed seminar focuses on Dali technology and Dali protocol, looking closely at the technical and installation considerations of Dali, and exploring the various ways in which Dali may be applied.

Dali is best known for the ability to individually address luminaires along a common buswire: what is less well known is that this is only one way of applying Dali and using other Dali approaches can provide all the benefits of Dali without the need to address ballasts.

This seminar covers the typical Dali buswire application but also investigates other approaches including Dali broadcast, Dali plug-in as well as the optimum in energy-efficiency – Dali zero power. The seminar also looks at the benefits of using Dali devices such as Dali presence detectors, Dali photocells, Dali multisensors and Dali switches which connect to the Dali luminaire – which can halve network cabling – as well as using Dali relays and Dali for colour changing applications. The seminar concludes with an exploration of the latest in emergency lighting and testing using Dali.

The seminar covers the following topics:

•  overview of lighting control and management
• an introduction to Dali
• comparison of Dali and other dimming technologies
• technical aspects and considerations of Dali
• Dali application - buswire, broadcast and plug-in
• comparison of the various Dali approaches
• Dali within a lighting management network
• Dali and integration with other services and systems
• design and application – where to start your design
• system architecture – how to apply your design
• Dali emergency light testing & monitoring 

"I thought I knew about Dali – now I do!”

Tony L, Design Engineer, UK Consultancy Practice.