Fast Heat Pump Installs

Jun 26 2024

Heat pumps are fantastic devices, but their communications wiring can slow down an install.

In this video, we will demonstrate how ADI’s Home Bus transceivers make it simple and easy to design a multi-drop, power-delivering backbone that installs fast and shrinks your thermostats and sensors.

Each building is unique. Heat pumps need to coordinate their indoor and outdoor heads, while collecting data from remote sensors and thermostats. Especially when retrofitting existing buildings, getting these connections right can complicate the wiring work. It’s easy to make a mistake when working in a hot attic or damp crawlspace – and troubleshooting adds even more time to the job.

ADI’s Home Bus transceivers let you build a multidrop bus that can match any building’s layout with just a single, unshielded twisted pair cable.

Their excellent signal integrity allows a cable length of up to 1,000 meters, at a 200 kbps speed.

Our transceivers also let you deliver 2 Watts of power to your wall-mounted devices over that very same unshielded twisted pair. Thanks to ADI’s Active Inductor technology, your thermostats and sensors can get 11mm thinner, while saving 10 times the board space of older designs.

This demo shows a multi-drop Home Bus network. There are several hundred meters of simple UTP wire, passing both data and power.

You can see our own eval kit devices interoperating with a Commercial Off The Shelf thermostat as they control the lights and fans. This highlights the flexibility Home Bus gives system designers.

Fast Heat Pump Installs

Jun 26 2024

Heat pumps are fantastic devices, but their communications wiring can slow down an install.

In this video, we will demonstrate how ADI’s Home Bus transceivers make it simple and easy to design a multi-drop, power-delivering backbone that installs fast and shrinks your thermostats and sensors.

Each building is unique. Heat pumps need to coordinate their indoor and outdoor heads, while collecting data from remote sensors and thermostats. Especially when retrofitting existing buildings, getting these connections right can complicate the wiring work. It’s easy to make a mistake when working in a hot attic or damp crawlspace – and troubleshooting adds even more time to the job.

ADI’s Home Bus transceivers let you build a multidrop bus that can match any building’s layout with just a single, unshielded twisted pair cable.

Their excellent signal integrity allows a cable length of up to 1,000 meters, at a 200 kbps speed.

Our transceivers also let you deliver 2 Watts of power to your wall-mounted devices over that very same unshielded twisted pair. Thanks to ADI’s Active Inductor technology, your thermostats and sensors can get 11mm thinner, while saving 10 times the board space of older designs.

This demo shows a multi-drop Home Bus network. There are several hundred meters of simple UTP wire, passing both data and power.

You can see our own eval kit devices interoperating with a Commercial Off The Shelf thermostat as they control the lights and fans. This highlights the flexibility Home Bus gives system designers.