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Re: Water heater eating X-10 signal
In article <4632cb4f.1393007156@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) writes:
| "Mr. Land" <graftonfot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| >I have a theoretical question for those of you with a lot of PLC
| >experience: if I plug in some device known to eat X-10 signals, would
| >I expect to see the same drop in signal level at all of the outlets on
| >that phase?
|
| No. Signal sinks tend to be somewhat localized with outlets nearby or
| downstream most affected.
Jeff has suggested that signal sinks can reduce the signal as seen at
the panel/repeater (either by taxing the repeater's power supply or by
causing a drop across its output coupling network). I've never seen this
happen in practice, but it could provide a mechanism for non-local effects.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
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