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RE: Selling your Automated Home


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Selling your Automated Home
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 14:38:48 +0100
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Hmmm ... all the switches at my home you press downwards to turn on - just
as you do with sockets.

Ah well ...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 May 2001 11:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Selling your Automated Home
>
>
> Nope, downward.
> If you stumble against a wall in the dark, you will knock the
> switch down
> (usually)
> and that shouldn't turn the power on in a house full of water.
>
> at least, that was the idea.....
>
> Ian.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:57 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Selling your Automated Home
>
>
> > Surely an upward motion should turn it off?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 10 May 2001 16:37
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Selling your Automated Home
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm not sure I know what you mean by the Fire Brigade,
> > > insurance man -
> > > yes,
> > > > fireman sam - no. I imagine that an insurance company
would
> > > try to wriggle
> > > > their way out of paying up if the house burnt down as a
> > > consequence of a
> > > > LD11 or appliance module. 'non-standard' springs to
mind as
> > > the type of
> > > > terminology they would come out with :-)
> > >
> > > Wooly thinking on my part: my Dad used to be fireman, and he
> > > always got at
> > > me about putting light switches on "the wrong way
round",
> > > because a downward
> > > motion should turn it off, not on.
> > >
> > > that being said, in a standard house you have 2-way
> > > switching, so one os
> > > always "the wrong way", and there's no master
power off like in a
> > > shop/office..
> > >
> > > best just ignore me till the pills kick in again ;)
> > >
> > >
> > > Ian.
> > >
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