RE: X10 Fan speed control

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

OK ... Sounds like a good enough reason to haul out the toys from under
Edwards bed and try to "borrow" the lamp module that his bedside
light is
using at the moment.

Of course I'll do it later ... *grin* ... you know those jobs.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 May 2001 09:45
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 Fan speed control
>
>
> 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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