Re: HA Issue

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

I think you are referring to the 1132B. I bought one when they were
introduced and found that they were overly sensitive to low level and
out-of-band (I think) noise. They would become deaf to the powerline. I
never found any way to fix it. Someone who sells thousands of TW523s was
looking at using them but experienced the same problem.

All of their later models appear to have the same issue. The LEDs on the
2000STW lamp modules and 2414S interface would flicker rapidly if on the
same circuit with an older MultiSync monitor. I could not see any noise on
my scope through an ACT Scope-Test2 which is why I think it was reacting to
something out of the normal X-10 frequency band.

"Brad" <bsnedek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Good Morning All,
>
>   I seem to be having an issue with a couple of Smarthome PowerLincs.
>My tw523's all work fine as does my XTB and CM11. Over the last couple
>of weeks I seem to be getting a lot of failures on the X10 portion of
>my system.
>
>   In my garage for example, I monitor my well pump, an rf motion
>detector in the driveway, and a motion detector at my back gate. Latley
>I have little or no communication with these devices. The garage system
>uses a custom built pic board with a PowerLinc.
>
>   My front yard low voltage lighting is partly controlled by a
>PowerLinc and a custom built pic board. It is not receiving X10 from my
>system.
>
>   My question is. These PowerLincs seem to be somewhat smart. Is there
>a way to reset them other then to remove power? Is there an issue with
>these units? I am using them in plain old tw523 mode. I am starting to
>get fustrated with these units. I bought a couple of SwitchLincs a
>while back and all they did was slam my system with a bunch of X10
>traffic. Can the PowerLincs do that to?
>
>Thanks For Your Time
>      Brad


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