Flyback,
Governments should not be in the business of dictating how much light I use in my home or business. The most they should do is to encourage me to be frugal and efficient with the energy I am using to create that light.
Frugal, by turning lights off when not needed. And minimizing the light when we are using them. For instance, I seldom turn on the overhead light in my office. I have a desk light when I am working there, and my bench has it's own overhead light. Short of moving my office up onto the roof and using sunlight, I couldn't minimize my use of lighting much more. All with using readily available devices.
Efficiency: At the moment nearly all of the lighting devices I use are florescent. Granted, many still have older magnetic ballasts, so there is room to improve my efficiency there.
So, what would the Isotera do for me that I can't do in some other way?
Does it really promote frugality? I would say not very. If you have a room with 20 cubicals in it, but only have 18 employees and two of them are out sick, are you going to go up into the ceiling and unclip those 4 light sets from the Isotera power pair? Not likely. So all 20 work spaces are lit up all day long. A far better way would be to have each light group individually switched, either at it's raw power connection, or individually addressed so it can be turned off by a building management computer.
But a big part of this idea is efficiency. I remember that you opened the other Isotera thread with a claim that it would improve lighting efficiency by 20%. But neither you, nor anyone else, could come up with any published numbers in the real efficiency of the system. Is that info available now?
What I would like to see is total system efficiency for a realistic installation. Starting from the AC input terminals and ending at the LED driver. For the Isotera system that needs to include the PFC front end, the 50KHz sinewave driver, say, 20 meters of twisted pair, to the output of the clip on coupler. And, assuming that the front end will be in a utility room some distance away from the room(s) being lit, the first 15 meters of the wiring should be in steel conduit.
And the next number I want to see, is what is it's quiescent load. When the front end and it's 50KHz oscillator is active, but all of the lights are turned off. That is an important number to have since most offices will be in that state for 14 hours a day, 5 days a week, and 24 hours on weekends.
And, if I'm not asking to much already, does the Isotera system work with florescents? You put up another thread recently stating that LEDs were less efficient than florescents. Now, I don't have any knowledge myself on that matter but, will customers have to put up with the (by your argument) less efficient LEDs in order to use the (unknown efficiency) Isotera system?