Re: Cause of some major X10 problems found

["bruceR" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Green wrote:
> "D&SW" <d&sw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:0kGFi.6549$qV3.6092@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Yup, that would be correct. Not everyone can afford huge Z-wave
>> systems...which have their own set of problems anyway.
>>
>> "Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
>> news:ZtidnTWt7O4VC3vbnZ2dnUVZ_qGknZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>>  The soultion was to simply plug the charger into an X10 Filter.
>>>
>>> As opposed to just junking the X-10 crap entirely?
>>
>>
> Just to set the record straight, Bill's a Lutron Radio RA user.
> They're "the higher priced spread" and would likely be immune to
> Chinese switch-mode power supplies.  The RA system is radio based and
> is susceptible to - you guessed it! - RF interference.  The protocol
> they use has far superior error detection to the RF used in X-10 and
> they also are very conservative when estimating the operating range
> of their transceivers.  If you're mostly into ultra-reliable lighting
> control and you have big $, the RA way sounds like the way to go.  So
> far RF interference hasn't been a problem for anyone outside of NYC,
> but the RF band is always getting more crowded, so when it reaches
> the relative age of X-10, it may be in much the same situation.  I
> doubt how either protocol fares 30 years from now will be of interest
> to my cremated remains, unless eternal life is invented before then.
> (-:

Boy, this thread certainly generated a lot more than I thought it would!
Here's a review of what I have:
A wife (I'm keeping her!); her errant phone charger; a JDS TimeCommander+
with a TW523 plugged into an XTB (NOT II); and some old X-10 Pro Leviton
switches with soft start.

 As for the comment on scrapping X10, agreed. We will be moving to a new
house here in Houston in 8 months that will be Insteon equipped.  As for the
charger vs. Insteon, my wife reports that she uses the same charger all the
time at our other house that is Insteon equipped and I have no problems
there.

The lights that were coming on randomly, did so around 4-6am.  However, all
OFF transmissions from a Leviton wall keypad to lights in the area with the
charger were also blocked by the charger.

If anyone wants to run tests on the charger let me know.