Re: The problems with X10 ...

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Beachcomber) wrote:

>On 4 Nov 2006 13:20:18 -0800, "accidental plumber"
><aplayerinla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I always wonder this: have you unplug all your electronic and
>>electrical appliances and tested?
>>
>>Because your neighbors typically have the same things as you do.  If
>>you have a clean strong signal in your house, it's harder for outside
>>devices' effect to travel far and affect your house.
>>
>>The exception is brownouts and power surge.  Brownouts are hard to deal
>>with unless your device have high capacitance to buffer momentarily
>>brownouts.  As far as noise goes, the chance of looking like a valid
>>X10 code shouldn't be likely, unless it's constant bombardment, not
>>surges.
>>
>
>Well... strictly speaking, it's your utility company might use a
>capacitor bank to minimize a drop in line voltage, but that's only if
>you are having problems with low power factor and that is generally
>not a problem with residential service unless you live in a factory
>district.  In most cases, it's a power company problem and there are
>few, if any residences that switch in capacitance to correct for low
>power factor.
>
>A brownout is an extended-time drop in voltage to your service usually
>caused by heavy loads (like summer-time peak air conditioning).
>There is not much you can do about them unless you have a line
>conditioner, which might also be described as a variable buck-boost
>transformer that effectively changes taps on-the-fly.   Some power
>company substation transformers will do this for you.  Not sure what
>you mean by buffering capacitance unless you are speaking in a very,
>very general sense, as in the stored energy of a ferro-resonant
>transformer or a mechanical flywheel.
>Beachcomber

Well, strictly speaking, I was referring to very short term dips that cause
the µController used in X-10 switches and modules to reset such as X-10
documents here...

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