RE: X10 FD10 filter advice

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

Jon,



My thoughts exactly, but given that the FD10 is only rated for 64amps
and its meant to be used as a whole house filter how are you supposed to
use it ?



Marcus

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jon Wilkins
Sent: 21 January 2008 11:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] X10 FD10 filter advice



I'm not an electrician and just looking at it from the point of view of
the
current rating, I would think that if the main fuse is 100A then
anything
between that and the next fuse (probably the bank of MCBs for each of
your
lights & socket circuits etc at 5A, 30A etc.) should be rated >100A.
Certainly not less than the 100A fuse protecting it.

Imagine what could happen if all your circuits were actually pulling,
say,
90A. The main fuse wont blow, but th load is exceeding the 60A rating on
the filter..... A Bad Thing.

On Jan 21, 2008 11:12 AM, Marcus Warrington
<marcus.warrington@xxxxxxx <mailto:marcus.warrington%40mis-es.com>
>
wrote:

> 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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