Re: Gremlins stole my WAF

["matt_miles_uk" <m_miles@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Have you ruled out the basics?  i.e cross-connection form others
using X10 near you (if they do)? surges from the power grid - the
local elecrticity board should be able to help.  Interference from
local radio waves, mobile phone masts recently erected etc (do you
use a TM12 radio transciever to control X10?

Maybe an inline X10 mains filter would help?


HTH

Matt

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, <anthony.kirrane@xxxxxxx; wrote:
> LOL
>
> No but it was a boarding school for one hundred years.  I hadn't
actually
> considered ghosts being the cause.  I wonder if LetsAutomate do a
meter for
> that kind of testing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx...]
> Sent: 02 February 2004 11:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Gremlins stole my WAF
>
>
> Your house wasn't built on an ancient burial ground by any chance
was
> it?   ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anthony.kirrane@s... [mailto:anthony.kirrane@xxxxxxx...]
>
> Sent: 02 February 2004 11:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Gremlins stole my WAF
>
> Hi all
>
> I have been happily using Autom8it for the last six months.  I have
> about 10
> X10 light switches and about 3 X10 Appliance switches.  Nothing too
> fancy.  I
> downloaded the Autom8it scheduler plugin about 4 months ago and
set-up a
> sunset/sunrise routine.  This turns on the garden lights at dusk
and off
> again in the morning.  Everything was working as expected.
>
> Out of the blue last week the lights started switching on and off
> outside of
> any scheduled times.  I awoke last Wednesday morning to find
evidence of
> the
> total annihilation of my WAF.  Indeed the light was hanging off the
> bedroom
> ceiling and one of the wall switches had been given a severe
beating.
> When I
> went downstairs the computer I use to control the automation was
> unplugged
> and looking very sorry for itself.  Apparently, unbeknown to me
(as I
> sleep
> like a log)  the wife had been kept up all night by a disco
sequence of
> the
> house lights. She eventually unplugged the PC that controls it
all.  She
> also
> unplugged the All House Code receiver and took the batteries out
of the
> 4in1
> remote.  All to no avail.  The lights still switched on and off
> apparently by
> themselves.
>
> So after the initial ear bashing and my attempts to salvage some
WAF I
> decided to investigate.  After a week of investigating I haven't
got the
> foggiest as to why this could be happening.  My best guess is a
faulty
> switch
> or some third party device issuing an All Lights On and All Lights
Off
> command.
>
> Has anyone experienced anything similar and or has anyone got any
good
> diagnosis strategies.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
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