Re: X10 FLUORESCENT LIGHTS

["Shaun Eli" <missingchild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

X-10 lighting systems (the light switches and lamp modules) put a very
small amount of current through the circuit continuously-- that's how
it can tell that you turned a lamp off and then on again, if it's
plugged into a lamp module.  And if you do that, it Clicks On.

Fluorescent lights aren't compatible with that, so if you use
fluorescent lights/bulbs, you have to run them through an appliance
module (that, by the way, won't dim).

You can't put fluorescent bulbs into a fixture controlled by an X10
light switch or an X10 lamp module.

But you can plug a lamp into an appliance module and put a fluorescent
bulb into it.

Shaun Eli
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