RE: I thought I was going mad......

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

I have those kinda days!

So does Brian (lucky white heather) Reynolds ;-)

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:lists.diyha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 April 2002 09:25
> To: UKHA Discussion (E-mail)
> Subject: [ukha_d] I thought I was going mad......
> 
> I thought I was going mad......
> 
> ....when strange X10 things were happening or not happening.
> 
> No hot water the other day - BAD THING - Nearly froze my bits off
in
the
> bath
> Thought the element must have died but tried an override of the
module
-
> water heated up OK -
> - put that down to a 1 off X10 failure and considered changing the
way
> that
> important things are done eg instead of turning the Water Heater
OFF/ON
> with
> a schedule, have a flag that is set or cleared. Then have a
scheduled
> event
> that happens every 10 minutes and either forces the Hot Water
OFF/ON
> according to the flag. That should mean it will never be wrong
after
10
> minutes even if a signal fails to get through. 10 minutes should
ensure I
> dont flood the system with X10 traffic.
> 
> Couldnt turn the lounge lights off last night. - BAD SIGN
> Tried a power down of the IR 543 - still no good.
> Changed the house code and then put it back - still no good
> Considered the X10 failure the other day - thought something was
blocking
> it - waited 10 mins - it worked.
> 
> Alarm went off this morning but no light on in the bedroom -
another
> failure - BAD SIGN.
> Came downstairs and went into the lounge - lamps were on like they
should
> be - GOOD SIGN
> 5 seconds later - LAMPS WENT OFF - that aint supposed to happen -
BAD
SIGN
> Tried to turn them back on - IR543 not working - it sends directly
to
the
> lamps not via Homevision - BAD SIGN
> Looked at the clock - 05:50 - DING !!!!!
> 
> Light SHOULD go off at 06:50
> 
> I had checked the time on Homevision and set it right when the
clocks
> changed but HV had then adjusted itself
> 1 HOUR FAST - RESET
> 
> Viewed the log to see what X10 commands it had received from the
IR543
if
> any....
> LOADS, on housecodes A, P, J.... infact anything but L (Lounge)
> 
> Disassemble IR 543 - Code wheel broken - solder link in place -
Now
fixed
> to
> Housecode L
> 
> These are the first real problems I have had with X10 in over 5
years
and
> the confusion was caused by 2 things
> Wrong time on Homevision AND a faulty IR 543 at the same time.
> 
> Now what are the chances of that !!!!!!
> 
> I feel much better now normal operation has been restored :-))
> 
> Keith
> 
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