Re: N:Vision CFL's

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:21:15 -0400, "Robert Green"
<ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<FJKdnX-5FYQl0JvbnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@xxxxxxx>:


>
>The quest for the Holy Grail of low cost, high efficacy/efficiency light
>bulbs that actually *work* with my setup as fluidly as incandescents
>continues . . .

Did they ever find the Holy Grail? ;-)

Your patience is commendable, but all of your problems seem to be related to
X-10.  ABIK, all the other features parameters and properties of interest are
met by the 60-watt bulbs. So one could define the problem as a problem with
X-10.

So this seems to me like yet another good reason to move on from X-10.

The interaction with each of the X-10 devices you have may be specific to the
X-10 device-CFL pair, leading to n different trouble-shooting scenarios.
Maybe that's what the n: in n:vision stands for ;-)

Some might note you have invested upwards of (IIRC)  $1000 in just various
X-10 diagnostic tools and signal enhancers (Monterey, ELK, XTBs, SmartHome
booster, phase coupler,) which is more than my entire 30+-device INSTEON cost
me.

And I note that the n:vision CFLs I have installed in an INSTEON system
devices has none of the problems you describe (although I have mostly used
the 60-watt equivalent).

I'll try to go systematically through the matrix of 60, 100, 150watt using
ICON and V2 lamp modules, appliance modules, dimmers, switches and keypads.

(There is no intent to try to convince Bobby to change anything. He has
reasons to stick with X-10 that he has explained elsewhere.)

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org