RE: X10 FD10 filter advice

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah OK - I sympathise.

I used to have a whole house X10 system but it suffered from occasional
interference and the odd light coming on - very spooky. It did tend to be
only a few lights that were affected - maybe due to the particular code
they were on or perhaps something to do with the LD11's themselves?

Anyway, this was one of the reasons I moved to the more capable and
reliable CBus installation. Probably won't help you though unless you want
to go that way :(

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Marcus Warrington
> Sent: 21 January 2008 12:05
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10 FD10 filter advice
>
> 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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