Re: Laying out a new house - looking for Wiring and controller advise

[Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

see
http://forums.accessha.com/showthread.php?t=1137&page=3&pp=15&highlight=choke

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On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:52:01 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)
wrote:

>"none" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>"John J" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> I've read the Insteon comparison, done by Insteon, with a skeptical view.
>>> Anyone had any real world experience with this size system and layout?
>>
>>Insteon has a major hardware defect, sub-standard choke coils that are
>>allowing noise into the triac, which causes VERY undesirable and significant
>>light flickering when certain loads are dimmed and there is Insteon
>>communication. It won't be fixed until July (maybe, they aren't promising).
>>(and boo to SmartHome for continuing to ship the defective dimmers when they
>>have supposedly fixed the problem in the newer ToggleLincs but not the older
>>Decora or KeypadLinc dimmers).
>>
>>I would wait until then if you plan on doing anything with Insteon.
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>Where did you find this information? I've been watching a thread on
>SmartHome's Insteon forum (http://www.techmall.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=9)
>which indicates there are two (perhaps related) problems. One is with
>Insteon controlled lights that flash on/off rapidly when there is powerline
>traffic from Insteon controllers and another is with certain non-Insteon
>controlled lights (various lights & controllers) also flickering during
>Insteon transmissions. I haven't seen any diagnosis from SmartHome and
>question whether "sub-standard choke coils" could explain the symptoms.
>
>There is another problem which I've seen, Bruce Robin has seen, and others
>have also reported wherein Insteon controllers/modules appear to be reacting
>to very low level out-of-band "noise". The LED on the controller/module will
>flicker rapidly and the controller/module will stop responding to legitimate
>powerline signals. This problem has been around for a few years, predating
>Insteon. I first saw it with the very first PowerLinc RS232 interface, it's
>also present in their 2000STW LampLinc modules and now it seems to also be
>affecting the Insteon hardware.