RE: X10 Fan speed control

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

As it happens, I just so happen to have done this inadvertantly last
year...

I ran out of sockets on the 4-way down behind my bed, so I decided to wire
two appliances directly into the same plug. (Not ideal I know...)

I inadvertantly wired my bedside lamp and a desk fan which was wall-mounted
just above the headboard into the same plug, forgetting that the lamp was
of
course on a lamp module...

Confused the hell out of me when the fan started doing very peculiar things
until I realised what I'd done.

The upshot of it was though, that in my case the lamp module >DID<
indeed
give me speed control of the fan motor... Whether it "should"
have done or
not, I don't know, and whether long-term use like this would damage either
the module or the fan motor, I also don't know, as I quickly put it back to
"proper" wiring once I'd realised what I'd done. That said, it
was wired in
this arrangement for a good couple of months, and neither seems to have
suffered any ill effects...


Regards.

Paul G.


>
>
>I'd been wondering about X10 control of not only the ON/OFF switching
of a
>"normal" desk/stand fan but also speed control. Does anyone
know off had
>whether just a lamp module will do the job or will that make for a
noisy
>fan? (If so then any ideas for X10 control of the speed switches?)
>
>I would try a lamp module but I've just loaned all my spare lamp and
>appliance modules to my brother in law (with my CM12) for him to start
>playing with.
>
>Phil
>
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