Re: Experience with X10Pro versus old X10?

["BruceR" <br@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When it comes to wall switches, the ones from Smarthome and Leviton are
best. For Appliance Modules and Lamp Modules there's little difference.
Some of the lamp modules I recently pulled in my conversion to Insteon
were over 20 years old.  Do you have a passive coupler or active
repeater?  Before spending money on replacing modules order an XTB
signal amp from Jeff Volp and install a passive coupler. That's more
likely to solve your problems.

 Joerg wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> Slowly I am getting sick of aligning X10 modules only to have it or
> another one fail again next month. What if I threw some X10Pro modules
> into the mix, in the more difficult locations? Are they really so much
> better?
>
> Google searches yielded contradictory results. Some links mentioned
> that a few Pro appliance modules aren't much different inside, others
> say they all have AGC and more sensitivity. There isn't much info on
> mixed use (Pro and non-Pro modules).
>
> X10 runs a special with two app modules and two lamp modules right
> now. Tempting, but I don't want to try this stuff only to discover
> it's no good either. One issue with the old style modules is the
> "filter" circuit which, when I measured it, turned out to be more of
> a barn door than a filter so fish out the 120kHz signal.
>
> So, those of you who have used X10Pro, do you think it's worth it?