Re: If building a house would you use X-10?

["msgindia" <marksgraves@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Phil,

I'm thinking that when I'm retired one of my hobbies will be to keep adding
automation to the house.  So, I do what to do it right - the first time.  I
appreciate your ideas.

Mark

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@...> wrote:
>
> If you're doing it as a bit of something to do then by all means use
X10 but
> if you're doing it to actually do a proper job of it then go with
something
> like C-Bus...
>
> You *CAN* get X10 to be reliable (I did) but it is very easy to screw
up a
> nicely working install by plugging in some built-down-to-a-price power
> supply for some random piece of kit...
>
> Phil
>
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> > Of msgindia
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> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] If building a house would you use X-10?
> >
> > I've been planning my retirement home for a while now and was
thinking
> > that I'll have a unique opportunity of being able to install some
> > things that would be too much trouble in a completed house.  If
you
> > were in the same boat would you use X-10 or maybe something else
like
> > home-run cabling with centrally located relays/dimmers?  What do
you
> > see as pluses and minuses (besides the cost of wire)?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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