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Subject: Re: Fluorescent lght
From: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:48:34 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.home.automation
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"Dimbo Spams" <cuervojose(remove)@jps.net> wrote:

>One thing I have noticed though, is that when I have cfl equipped fixture
>turned on the bulbs cause interference with the rest of my x10 modules. they
>do not respond to on off commands, as soon as I replaced the cfl bulbs with
>regular incandescent, the problem went away, Is mine an isolated case?

It's not an isolated case. There have been an increasing number of reports
of CFL noise blocking X-10 and Insteon communication. You can add a filter
but that substantially changes the economics (already iffy IMO) of using
CFLs.

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