Lighting for dedicated home theatre

[jagdeepp]

hi guys, i've got a thread in the home cinema diy section and haven't had a huge response to whats clearly a technical question. Could you guys help?

Here's a cut and paste from my thread:

I was up till around 12:30am last night sketching on pieces of paper. I'm finding it too much effort to keep trying things on sketchup. Doodling is so much more fun! Once i'm a little more sure of one of the sketches i'll sketchup it.

Anyway, back to it. I was rolling around most of the night thinking about the lighting.. Yes, i know. I am a complete hermit!

I've settled on the Scene Select 4. It'll fit into a standard double backbox and seems the right thing for me. I'm not going with the Lutron. The GET one is quite attractive and i'm able to secure a discount off that gear but Scene Select 4 is the one i'm settling with.

An issue i'm having is this:

In connecting up one of these, i'll have 4 zones which should comprise of:

1 - ropelight
2 - Spotlights in soffit and ceiling
3 - Wall lights
4 - Lights in step by the screen stage

. I note the SS4 has live in and live out together with an earth. What i'm wondering is this: Am I able to directly link my live circuit to this instead of running this via a light switch say for the ropelight for instance and then onto the scene style 4. I'd like to have all banks directly linked to this for complete control instead of having say 4 seperate light switches which then output to the scene select 4. It would make the wiring process much easier too. Am i making any sense?

Secondly i was wondering this.. Ropelight -
Is this connected as standard via live neutrul etc or does it require a power supply?

If I have one series of ropelight going around the outside permiters and one down the centre of the ceiling seperately connected would this be straightforward to run off one bank?

Heres an example. Note the floating bit down the centre which is connected to the ropelight running around the permiter walls.

I'll have an electrician onboard though i dont think he'll have had much experience of ropelight, scene select or the like, any advice would therefore be appreciated.

Cheers guys, look forward to your response.