Re: X10 continuous bright problem...

["BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You mention that you've eliminated wireless but it sure sounds like a
stuck button on a Palm Pad or other controller.  One of my old BSR
Controllers died by doing something similar.

 martin.reynolds@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've been running a fairly large X10 system for almost 20 years. 60
> modules, repeater. I've eliminated the wireless leg over power lines.
> It's been generally reliable, with a few soft spots on long runs and
> the occasional killer power supply in a PC, printer or game device. No
> whole house filter, but my neighbors are 100 - 200 feet away.
>
> So today, it stops working. Total shutdown. A little research turns up
> a continuous E9/bright command. My little tester flags it as a strong,
> clean signal with noiseless zeros and full strength 1s.
>
> A long search reveals no suspicious devices, so I turn off the
> breakers one at a time. Doesn't work. I open all the breakers, and
> find that the signal is on at least two separate circuits. I have the
> repeater disconnected as well.
>
> Then comes an indiscretion with the tester as I connect it across the
> two lin phases, and it ejects black smoke. So I never quite nailed it
> as an external influence, but it seems that is what it has to be.
> Almost like one of my neighbors is blasting e9/b with a big amp.
>
> Of course, it is gone now. And the whole house filter will arrive this
> week.
>
> Anybody ever seen anything like this? It was almost like a deliberate
> jamming signal.