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campus-wide lighting maintenance, were recruited <strong>for</strong> the retrofitting task. Both<br />

electricians had worked with dimmable ballasts be<strong>for</strong>e, but neither of them had prior<br />

experience with this particular mote-based actuation module. It took each of the<br />

electricians roughly one hour to complete retrofitting the first luminaire, but the<br />

retrofitting time reduced to about twenty minutes per troffer <strong>for</strong> each electrician after<br />

they had gotten up to speed <strong>and</strong> had developed their own method <strong>for</strong> installing the<br />

modules. The wires used on the actuation modules were color coded to match the color<br />

of the wires used <strong>for</strong> typical dimmable ballasts <strong>and</strong> power lines to avoid confusion <strong>and</strong><br />

enhance the ease of installation. Figure 9-4 is a snapshot of the retrofitted office with<br />

the luminaires actuated at different levels.<br />

Figure 9-4 Office lighting after retrofitted with the research system.<br />

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