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Re: Re: New TWO-WAY UK Modules!


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: Re: New TWO-WAY UK Modules!
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:15:44 +0100
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This is what "X10-Pro" >should< have been....

Paul G.

>--- In ukha_d@y..., Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@s...> wrote:
>
>"In 1998, ACT began a project to make a completely new line of PCC
>products that would be X-10 compatible, but with more features,
>better operation and higher reliability.  We called it A10
>for "Advanced X-10".  The products feature improvements on
these five
>main points:
>
>    - "X-10 Compatible" means that they use the same
protocol.  They
>will work in older X-10 (Leviton, X-10 Pro, ACT PCC) installations.
>That does not mean that they will always "look" the same, are
the
>same size nor fit in the same box.
>
>    - "More Features" means that they are more
user-configurable.  The
>user can choose which features to use, and which not to use.  They
>are no longer limited to the "hard-set" functions in X-10
units.
>They also offer true 2-way communications.  You can now ask them
>their status and they will answer!
>
>    - "Better Operation" means that they operate in higher
noise
>levels and lower signal levels.  Where other X-10 devices will not
>work, these will.
>
>    - "Higher Reliability" is easy.  They work!  And they
continue to
>work.  They can extract signal out of noisy environments and they
>transmit more signal power.  And they last.
>
>    - "More Addresses" means that many of ACT's A10 products
are also
>capable of more than 256 addresses.  Called "Extended
Addressing",
>these devices allow an installation to have up to 4,096 unique
>addresses."
>
>
>Mark.
>
>
>
>
>


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