Review on Leviton PE300 D0W Extender 0 10VDC Ballast by Lokesh Das

Well unfortunately after bench testing the PE-300 (and PE-200) with UPB auto dimmers versus standard triac direct phase dimmers it is safe to say that UPB (SAI) dimmers are simply NOT compatible with PE 300 or PE 200 (each 0-10V driver interface and 3-wire fluorescent lamp ballast interface). and US1-40) when tested with both power expanders gave a pretty miserable range of 3 stupid preset light levels: low-mid-high. And with plenty of agonal shimmer along the way. I bought them (Oops, $$$) not to increase output, but to use UPB style dimmers as controllers for both of these two really fairly simple, ubiquitous ballast and driver systems commonly found in commercial/industrial settings be used. Unfortunately, and this is stupid from a marketing perspective, there are no 3-wire or 0-10V dimmers on the UPB consumer market, so PE was my only hope and last option to automate and dim these lights . I've since edited this review to properly point out that the issue isn't the Leviton PE, it's the UPB dimmers. Despite the simple and relatively cheap convenience of using power lines as a data backbone, the UPB world really needs to step up its game on the consumer side to convince the market that it's actually more reliable than the older X10 toy tech, which is also available was used (d) power line as data backbone. Maybe the impulse method of data transmission is somehow to blame? unlikely as the commercial/industrial market UPB (PCS) is currently producing a 0-10V controller for the industrial sector and ever-increasing environmental demands. or maybe the manufacturer has refrained from using a high quality triac circuit component to make the product more affordable. Who knows, but this isn't the first test I've done where the UPB dimmer output was the weak link when it came to dimming quality. traditional lighting loads versus a cheap, portable garden dimmer. I changed this rating from one star to four because the PE 300 and 200 worked as advertised after lab testing with a standard Lutron triac dimmer (with neutral wire). I can't tell what "power enhancement" it was capable of.