Re: X10 replacement?

[Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Marc,

>
>>But how much better could it have done if the receivers were designed well?
>
>
> Or --
>
> 1)as ACT-Solutions showed in 1999 with the AT001 6v p-p A10/X-10 transmitter,
> http://www.act-solutions.com/PCCSpecFrame.htm ,  and
>
> 2)a few years later with ACT's T-103 and similar transmitters with their
> husky power transformers, and
>
> 3)which in turn were physically emulated and extended in concept to any X-10
> transmitter by the XTB in-line amplifier in 2006
>
> --  if they had introduced better/ more powerful transmitters ?  ;-)
>

Better transmitters and Jeff Volp's XTB strategy should certainly also
be part of the game. But even then it is a rather brazen assumption that
the loss along a power line would be less than 40dB or that the noise
won't swamp everything, unless there is a proper passband filter. One
that is only a few kHz wide and not tens of kHz. Many times X10 works
ok, other times it doesn't. The worst case is when it sometimes does and
then quits. That drives ordinary customers nuts, especially when they do
not understand why.

--
Regards, Joerg

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