Re: Insteon now or wait?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

The LM14A was killing bulbs in a matter of several weeks or a couple of
months as opposed to the several years life I've become accustomed to since
I started using X-10.

Exploding (standard household type) light bulbs are very rare and usually
the fault of the bulb itself but I'm sure your lawyer will cite this
precedent to prove they can indeed occur (although the bulb in question may
not have been a standard household type).

     http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1131098716049

If Insteon were in use at this facility, I'm sure we would have heard about
it at the time of installation. After all, SmartHome is trumpeting that
their Insteon desktop software, which has yet to ship except for a few beta
copies, has been named "Product of the Year" by Electronic House. ;)

If bulbs were filled with an explosive mixture, few would last beyond the
first attempt to turn them on.

As an aside, I have heard from someone who saw the same thing with several
LM14As. It seems odd because my LM14A had been in use for a couple of years.
Another, even older, continues to function as it always has.

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I got the impression from both your experience with your LM14A and the
>Insteon-related  posts that this type of switch-induced "burn out" occurs
>quite rapidly.  I wouldn't want to be a lawyer faced with convincing a jury
>that a switch that causes bulbs to burn out within days, hours or minutes
>*couldn't* be a proximate cause of their catastrophic failure.   I used to
>do litigation computer support.  The scenario above isn't even a stretch
>compared to the tenuous connections upon which I've seen juries return huge
>awards.