RE: X10 FD10 filter advice

["Marcus Warrington" <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No all Christmas lights have long since been packed away :) I think
the
problem probably started around November last year but its difficult to
say for sure.

I've been racking my brains trying to think of what things may have been
"introduced" to the house around this time.

It may well be that the heating boiler is one possible cause.. but I've
yet to prove it either way as SWMBO won't let me turn it off to check !

Problem is that it may well have been doing this for a long time without
me even noticing. Since the "noise" doesn't seem to be constant
(it come
and goes) and most of the time the noise gets interpreted as house codes
I don't use so no ill effects are seen, except that sometimes
"real" X1O
signals are lost or not sent because the network is too busy.

ATM I'm trying to isolate the problem by filtering the house from the
outside mains, so at least I'll know if it's originating from MY
equipment.

Marcus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 21 January 2008 11:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 FD10 filter advice
>
> Do you still have any Christmas lighting operating or any other kind
of
> lighting that's new? These can be notoriously bad for causing X10
> interference. Just wondered given that you mentioned it started at
> Christmas...
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> > Of Marcus Warrington
> > Sent: 21 January 2008 11:12
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] X10 FD10 filter advice
> >
> > Over the Christmas period (and now beyond) I've noticed that we
have
> > started having trouble with our X10 lighting. This is mainly
> > manifesting
> > itself with the lights turning themselves off. Looking at the
> > HomeVision
> > logs it looks like we are periodically getting bursts of random
> > messages
> > on random house codes. Mainly these seem to be status hails and
status
> > responses etc so I suspect its noise on the line that is
sometimes
> > being
> > seen as valid X10 codes. I've not notices these before so suspect
they
> > are a relatively new thing but I could be wrong.  I've unplugged
all
> > the
> > RF receivers in case it as picking up RF signals but its still
doing
> > it.
> > Next step is to eliminate the possibility of noise coming into
our
> > house
> > on the mains from outside by installing an FD10 filter at the
consumer
> > unit.
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking at the FD10 its says its rated for 64 amps but the master
fuse
> > feeding the house is 100amps, so is it OK to install the F10 at
the
> > consumer unit immediately after the main MCB (is 64amps enough to
feed
> > a
> > whole house safely ?), or should I be looking at installing 2
FD10's
> > one
> > for the lighting side and one for the Socket side .. and if so
how
do I
> > link the X10 signals between each circuit ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Marcus
> >
> >
> >
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