Re: Water heater eating X-10 signal

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

graftonfot@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've had a modest X-10 system running in our house for a few years.
>It took me a while to get it working reliably enough to get the WAF to
>a level where my wife wasn't cursing "HAL" every other day.
>
>Part of that effort involved installing an active phase coupler in our
>mains panel.  Everything was working pretty well, until we recently
>added an electric water heater to the panel.
>
>The water heater is wired to a double pole 30 amp breaker in the panel
>via about 60' of 10/2 w/ground (no neutral connection on the heater,
>just the two hots).  After I installed it I noticed that our X-10
>controlled outside lights weren't coming on in the evenings.  After a
>little troubleshooting I discovered that if I switched off the breaker
>for the heater, the X-10 system went back to normal.  Switching the
>breaker on makes the problem reappear.
>
>I'm guessing that the connection to heater and/or the heater itself is
>"sinking" the X-10 signal.
>
>Is there a wired, in-line filter available that I can fit in after the
>breaker to block the X-10 signal from the heater and its wiring?  Is
>that the correct approach in this case?
>
>Thanks.

What happens if you disable your active coupler?

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