C2E616301_WE_C1 Schneider Cuadro H KNX Push Button Six Gang White 15mA Integrated Bus Coupler Unit

The C2E616301_WE_C1 is the six gang Cuadro H push button in white, the version that covers a room where the lighting has been designed in layers and a scene based control scheme is expected. It is a KNX bus device with an integrated coupling unit and a bus terminal connection, rated at 21 to 30 volts DC and 15 milliamperes, so the entire electrical specification is a single bus participant with no mains connection and no load rating to check.

The plate is polycarbonate, 86 by 86 millimetres and 29 millimetres deep, with a glossy white finish, and its technical type is proximity, which means it responds as a hand approaches rather than only on contact. The switch application is control switch, and the function the device performs is defined entirely by the group addresses assigned to each rocker during commissioning.

Six gang is enough that the plate can carry a full lighting scheme, and that makes the layout document the most important deliverable of the installation. The convention that survives years of use is grouping by function rather than by position: general lighting, feature lighting, perimeter lighting, blind, scene and all off, applied in the same order in every room of a type, and recorded with the group addresses so that a plate replaced after a refurbishment can be commissioned to match.

With short and long presses the plate yields twelve operations, which is usually more than the room needs and is the reason a written convention matters, because redundant functions are the ones that get reassigned ad hoc. The proximity behaviour should be judged per room, and on a white glossy plate the fitting quality is what the occupant notices, so the decorative frame and the box should be checked for square before the device is clipped in.

• Hotel rooms and suites are the largest application, where six gangs covers the lighting groups, the curtain and a scene recall from one entrance position.
• Open plan offices use it where the lighting is split into zones that follow the daylight and the occupancy pattern.
• Residential living areas apply it where the client expects a comprehensive plate rather than a row of switches.
• Meeting rooms and function spaces specify it where the room is set to different conditions through the day.
• Premium retail uses it where a large area is divided into display zones controlled from a small number of positions.