Lutron Caseta Smart Start Kit Install

James Adams installs a Smart light kit today in this installment of ABR Electric Show

PEACE OF MIND Set lights to automatically adjust with changing seasons so your family always comes back to a well-lit home you can also enable the Smart Away feature to randomly turn your lights on and off to look like you’re home even if you’re away

[neightjay]

Perfect, thanks James exactly what I was looking for.

[fierrofierro]

Hi, can i control 5 caseta dimmer switches at the same time wirelessly? For example undercab lights? I need to install 5 sections of lights but i wanted to control them all with one switch, but thought about installing 5 switches and control the 5 switches wirelessly at the same time.. thanks!

[daveborchard]

The downside with that Lutron Casetro model dimmer is that it doesn’t have a preset light level, like the Lutron Casetro Pico remote has. Lutron makes a main dimmer with the preset button, but it costs about twice as much, and it does require a neutral connection.

[TheSwartz]

You definitely have more balls than me to be messing with all that without turning off the circuit breaker! LOL

[FirstLastOne]

I have been using Caseta dimmers for over 5 years and it's been a hit and miss depending on what you're dimming.

Caseta dimmers work but are limited by their outdated, analogue dimming circuitry which Lutron has been using for well over 30 years. It's old and inefficient technology that's very limited. Expect to loose about 12% of your supply voltage to the dimmer's antiquated technology. It was really noticeable back in the Halogen lighting days with Lutron's previous dimmer lines and still noticeable now with the Caseta line when you use higher end LED PAR20, PAR30 and PAR38 LEDs with a super high output and high CRI. What you see with a voltage meter at the e26 socket with the dimmer at full setting is around 103V to 106V on a 120V supply which ends up taking the edge off high performance LED lights and making them look average.

If you are only using average, middle of the road LEDs and/or almost always dimming them, then it's no problem as you won't miss having 12% less light output at the top to begin with. How Lutron can call these 'smart light controls' when they are still using 30+ year old analogue dimming technology is beyond embarrassing. Why not go completely digital when the light sources these days are for the most part digital?