Interesting idea with the mixed colour temps and even colours would be interesting to see the result but I personally would go with LED (gasp) to simplify the install.
I believe with the 0-10v dimming system you have a pair of low voltage wires that connect to the dimming control from the ballast. The other common dimming ballast is powerline dimming where three line voltage wires are fed to the ballast (hot, dimmed hot, and neutral) from the dimmer. There's a 2 wire dimming system which has a combined hot and dimmed hot wire.
Meant to reply to this in my previous reply
Yep 1-10v does have a pair of low voltage wires for the control...I've test-wired one up on a board
Its doing it for "real" (IE: an actual install/code/etc) that I don't know - if you just use 14-4 Romex or if you do the standard 14-2 stuff, then a separate low-volt cable.
I've decided if I do it to go with 1-10v because its the closest there is to a true standard for electronic dimmable ballasts. (I have some old T12 magnetic's that use the 3-wires type (hot, dimmed hot, and neutral)) Some electronic's use 3-wires too (hot, low-voltage, and neutral) but my understanding is they are proprietary.
I don't think LED would work as actual lighting (not bright enough...but yeah it might be easier to run LED strips as a decorative RGB thing, then just one standard color like 3000k (still dimmable ofcourse) of fluorescent) I'd have to see if they make anything that's a "standard" for LED I know allot of whats out there either runs on low voltage and/or needs its own proprietary controller.
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-As far as crazy weather here, yeah, it's blistering hot right now but the subzero winters are going to a new experience for me. Not only that, next year I might be living in Hays, Kansas, so I'll get to see the tornadoes and thunderstorms and massive hail. My roommate related a crazy story to me the other day about this microburst they had (he's from there, I might move down there for a year for the experience) right before he moved up here with winds in excess of 200MPH for about 15 minutes on end, no joke!
How hot is 'blistering hot'?? (It'd have to be
atleast 100 for me to consider calling it that)
Anything below zero is horrible weather. I hate it LOL
Thunderstorms/heavy rain is awesome weather
. but hail sucks! (a tornado would really suck. I've never seen anymore than a small funnelcloud in person). And yeah those microbursts can be really strong & sudden, thats why they're so dangerous for planes.
Strongest wind I've ever felt was a winter windstorm with gusts just over 100.