Lutron HomeWorks Illumination

The two series work together in one system, up to 16 processors, each controlling up to 256 zones of lighting or Sivoia QED shades. A module interface built into an 8 Series processor (MI) runs up to eight remote power modules in the same HWI-PNL-8-CE panel. A built-in H48 dimmer interface runs up to 48 wired Maestro controls. The 4 Series HRL models have a link for up to five hybrid repeaters, which add wireless keypads and dimmers.

A processor must be fitted in an approved Lutron enclosure, or its warranty is void.

Link wiring is one 1.0 mm² pair for power and one 0.5 to 1.0 mm² twisted, shielded pair for data, as in Lutron’s GRX-CBL-346S. Don’t connect terminal 2 (+15 V) on the processor, module interface, GRAFIK Eye or H48 links.

A processor takes up to three keypad links and three GRAFIK Eye links: 96 keypads and 24 GRAFIK Eye units or wallbox power modules. A Lutron link extender (LUT-LINK-EXT), one per link, takes the processor and module interface links to 610 m.

Keypads run on 15 V DC. They are addressed by DIP switch before mounting, and their links need no terminators. The terminals are common, +15 V DC and the two data lines (MUX).

An 8 Series processor powers 350 keypad LEDs. A 4 Series powers 150 on link 6 from its 15 V plug-in adapter, and keypads on its links 4 and 5 always need another supply. Beyond that, add a Lutron 15 V supply: PPS1-230-15DC-3A for 500 more LEDs, PPS2-230-15DC-3A for 1,000, or a plug-in for 150. Never join the processor’s +15 V to a supply’s, or two supplies’ together.

A remote power module has four outputs. It connects through Lutron’s harness to a module interface in the same power panel, up to eight to a module interface, and only 8 Series systems use them. Each takes up to 13 A, and its rotary switch can turn outputs on by hand.

The HWI-PNL-8-CE panel holds eight power modules and either a module interface or an 8 Series processor. The HWI-PNL-5-CE holds five and a module interface, but no processor. Panels hum and click, so keep their mains wiring at least 1.8 m from AV equipment.

The HWI-WPM-6D-230CE wallbox power module has six zones of 800 W each, dimmed or non-dim. It sits on a GRAFIK Eye link, wired like a six-zone GRAFIK Eye, at an address from 1 to 8, in a four-gang US back box (Lutron 241-400). Its default scene button keeps local control if it loses the processor.

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