Re: Re: Micromodules....

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Too big, too easily seperated from the appliance.

When you use an AM12 for something portable like an hoover, when you've
finished with it and want to unplug it and put it away, what do you pull?
Often, it's the appliance's plug that gets pulled, and seperated from the
module. Either way, you've got to always store the SAME AM12 with the 
appliance, _and_ (hardest part coming up now...) you've got to train SWMBO
to always be sure to use the module each time...

Some socket locations have a very hard time fitting a bulky AM12 in... -
I've a couple of places where sockets are close to an overhead obstruction
and the height of an AM12 prohibits their use.

There are 2 fuses in the supply to the appliance, - when one goes, how do
you know which one it is?

The micromodules support status reporting, but the AM12's don't, so no way
of determining the state of anything plugged into an ordinary appliance
module...

Suppose you want to use it in a restricted-use type of scenario, i.e. like
a 
TV in a kids bedroom, - any kid would soon figure out that all he/she has
to 
do to circumvent your "parental control" is remove the appliance
module from 
the socket, and plug the appliance in directly! - not possible with an X10
plugtop...

Enough reasons why plugin adapter modules are crap, and plugtops are
brill?? 
:-)

Paul G.



>From: "andy_powell_is" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Micromodules....
>Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:10:55 -0000
>
>
>isn't that called an appliance module :P
>
>Andy
>
>


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