Re: Jumper wiring Leviton 6284 / X10 PZZ01 Whole House Block

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Hello, I've been troubled by severe interference since installing X10 on
my two-leg 120v system.  I just installed a Leviton 6284 which reduced,
but did not eliminate the noise.  I don't see a reply to your post. Is
there a risk to placing a jumper from L3 to L2 or L1? Have you tried it
long-term?

I, too, am reluctant to burn my house down due to the potential
negative consequences on my marital status and a few other reasons. I'd
appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you!


AlanTinNYC;26323 Wrote:
> Hiya.  I wrote to this group around Thanksgiving with a bunch of
> questions about filtering out PLC Noise coming into my Manhattan
> apartment from elsewhere in the building.  Then I had to drop off for
> a
> while due to illness and some day-job issues needing greater
> attention.
> (See
> http://tinyurl.com/2aqr4c
> if you really want to review the gory story.)
>
> We're not quite done but have our issues about 98% resolved using a
> number of solutions, and I will follow up on that thread at a later
> date.  But I just need to check on something before I do any damage:
>
> I now have a Leviton 6284 Whole House block working along with a
> Leviton 6285 Signal Attenuator to really bring down the noise level,
> and a Leviton HCA02 booster to bring the cleaned, attenuated signal
> back up.  The 6284 seems to be functioning better than the PZZ01 we
> tried in November, but I don't know if the 6284 is designed better or
> if I just had two bum PZZ01s to start with.
>
> 1)  IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL BETWEEN X-10 PRO'S PZZ01
> AND LEVITON'S 6284?  Has any lab benchmarked their
> performance?  Are they identical?
>
> 2)  The installation instructions are nearly identical
> *except* that the PZZ01 instructions state "A jumper on
> the PZZ01 is needed from L3 to L2 when installing into a
> split-phase panel" and there is no corresponding
> instruction from Leviton.  I asked Leviton about this
> and they didn't know what I was referring to (or played
> dumb about a competitor's product).  I did find, though,
> that the 6284 performs better in my single split-phase
> panel with L2 jumped to L3 than without the jumper.  The
> ERROR light on the HCA02 still blinks, but the activity
> on both my ELK ESM1 and TesterLinc meters dies down
> dramatically.
>
> 3)  But on a hunch, I tried jumping L1 to L3 instead of L2
> to L3, and now I get no error indications for the first
> time in 9 months!  Assuming this had something to do
> with the noise level coming in on the phase wired to L1
> on the 6284's terminal block, I switched terminals so
> that the phase jumped to the L3 terminal now was wired
> to the L2 terminal (i.e., all according to the PZZ01
> instructions), but my error indicators came back.
>
> In a nutshell, the 6284 sitting in my breaker panel performs best when
> L1 is jumped to L3.  But jumping L1 to L3 is NOT DOCUMENTED in the
> PZZ01 literature, and jumping terminals on the 6284 is not documented
> by Leviton AT ALL.
>
> For safety's sake, I have the whole house block switched off until I
> find out more.  My wife loves our new home and I am not about to burn
> it down.  But can anyone confirm if it is safe to jump L1 to L3 on a
> Leviton 6284?
>
> Thanks, all!
>
>
> -- Alan T. in NYC


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