Re: 1132B PowerLinc transmit problem

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

vlad.troyanker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I thought CM11A and 1132B is essentially the same hardware that is just
>branded differently. Am I wrong?

They are not at all similar. The only thing they have in common is both use
the X-10 PLC protocol.

The CM11A output is only half the amplitude of the 1132B but the CM11A does
send at 60° intervals (all 3-phases) while the 1132B only sends at 180°
intervals.

The 1132B was designed by someone who has a long history of not getting
things quite right (which is why most of us remain nervous about Insteon)
while the CM11A was designed by X-10 themselves.

You can find the 1132B communications protocol on the SmartHome website.
It's an ASCII protocol so it's easy to create your own software if you can
do any programming.

The CM11A communications protocol is also available on the X-10 website but
it's a binary protocol and is a bit more difficult to deal with.