Re: is it possible for x10 signal bridge to fail?

[mike <spamme0@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chip Orange wrote:
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>>Chip Orange wrote:
>>
>>>I have several X10 lights which suddenly stopped responding,
>>>intermittently, to X10 signals.  by turning on and off some 220V
>>>appliances, I've come to believe that it's a failure of the whole-house
>>>signal bridge, about 10 years old.
>>>
>>>Since this is a completely passive system (my understanding anyway), I'm
>>>not sure how it could fail, but I wanted to ask here if having it
>>>replaced by an electrician is a reasonable effort at problem solving,
>>>since I can reliably make these switches respond by turning on 220V
>>>appliances?
>>>
>>>thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Anything can fail.  But I'd try diagnosing the problem before I went off
>>and replaced it.
>>
>>I had some stuff stop working.  Discovered it was caused by moving the
>>laptop switching power supply to another wall socket.
>>mike
>>
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>
> Thanks Mike, but I'm convinced I did, as I can cause it to fail with no 220V
> appliances enabled; when I enable their breakers, it works again.

Not sure exactly what you mean by the above, but if the system is
marginal, having more stuff bridge the phases can help.
I'd still do some more debugging and maybe analyze the coupler to make
sure it's really dead.
I've replaced a lot of "good" stuff in my day.
mike

>
> The previous poster, perhaps knowing I also have some noise problems like
> you indicated, suggested I might use a repeater instead of a passive
> coupler.  At this point I'd simply like to know if these are prone to their
> own special set of problems or not?
>
> thanks.
>
> Chip
>
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