RE: Anyone seen the X10 Mains Sockets on LetsAutomate?

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I've had one of these nestling in my computer room for some time and it's just a way of making or breaking the mains supply to the socket (or whatever single gang outlet you decide to add to it. You can just put a single gang fused flex outlet on it and use that to run an immersion heater for instance.

 

Must admit that they were disappointing when you see the American X10 switches ... demoting a double socket to a single should be against the law! They do have their uses though ... I was hoping for X10 controlled sockets for the AV room (for powering off subwoofers and power amps which have no remote) and still may use these but I'll probably use AD10s instead.

 

Cheers

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 June 2001 14:08
To: ukha_d
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone seen the X10 Mains Sockets on LetsAutomate?

It looks like a standard clipsal single gang 13A socket so just disconnect it and replace with a non switched one. I doubt you would be able to remove the switch as it would be an integral part of the socket. I also guess that the switch is a normal latching one so if you turn the switch Off then On is would sense that and trun on locally but wouldnt turn off. If the switch was turned off the thing would be totally off just like using the switch on a table lamp etc when plugged into Appliance/Lamp modules.

 

Note: Above comments based soley on looking at the picture.

 

Maybe Mike can clarify / confirm what I have speculated.

 

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 June 2001 14:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone seen the X10 Mains Sockets on LetsAutomate?

Would I be right in assuming that the switch on this unit is a momentary switch which would reverse the current state? Also can we assume that the unit is as dumb as the rest of the UK units, i.e. no status reporting. If this is the case then what is the possiblity of removing the switch and putting one of those clipsal blanking plates in to disable local control?

 

Graham

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