Re: Cause of some major X10 problems found

["Dan Wright" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"bruceR" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Things started going haywire at my Houston home last week with lights
> coming on randomly and no control to some areas even with an XTB at the
> main controller and a Smartlinc plug-in Repeater.  I quckly found the
> culprit:  A light weight electeronic cellphone charger from a no-name
> Chinese factory. The almost identical looking Plantronics charger showed
> nothing on the Monterey tester but the phone charger spat out a continuous
> string of what showed up BSC (bad start code) messages. As those familiar
> with the Monterey tester know, the unit will show BSC for anything it
> doesn't really understand.
> The soultion was to simply plug the charger into an X10 Filter.

I had similar problems in my last X-10 home and never found the culprit.
Congratulations