Re: Control Hot Water Circ Pump With X10?

["Bob F" <bobnospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

David White wrote:
> Bob F wrote:
>> David White wrote:
>>> Hello. My house has a hot water circulating pump built in and
>>> located near my hot water tank. It currently runs 24/7 and this is
>>> excessive. So I would like to put it on a timer controlled by my
>>> X10 system. The pump is wired to a wall switch so I think it
>>> easiest to replace the standard wall switch with an X10 switch. I
>>> have done this with many of the lights in my house so it should be
>>> easy for me to accomplish. My question is which model switch should
>>> I use? Is something like the WS467 ok? Or is there another unit
>>> that would be better for use with the pump? Thanks for your advice.
>>
>> When I added a recirc system to my house, I added low voltage wiring
>> from each room needing hot water, with a push button there. Push the
>> button, and it turns on the pump long enough to get hot water to
>> that fixture. So the pump almost never runs, but hot water is fully
>> available half a minute or so after you enter the room and push the
>> button. Ypu could use X10 commands to do the same thing, I suppose,
>> avoiding the low voltage wiring.
>
> I checked with my sister who has a nearly identical system to yours in
> her house. I agree that this is an ideal solution to the problem. Now
> that I have the pump on X-10, I could put a controller some sort in
> the guest bathroom to provide a manual, on-demand run of the pump. I
> would just need to find an X-10 controller that can send an on signal
> followed by an off signal after an appropriate delay. I could use
> Active Home to do this sort of thing, I think. But I do not want my
> computer running all the time monitoring for this.

Don't some of the X10 motion detectors do that - send an on signal followed by
an off signal.