Re: Control Hot Water Circ Pump With X10?

[David White <whitedavidp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob F wrote:
> 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.
>
>
That's an interesting idea. Thanks!