Re: CFL's and X-10

["D&SW" <d&sw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was in the mail today...question is has X10 done anything to stop a CFL
from flickering from the local control sensing current?
http://www.x10.com/promotions/am466_ed_cfl_0610.html

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The X-10/CFL problem has a lot of dimensions, and as far as I can tell, no
> neat solutions.  In examing the schematic for the LM465, it became clear
> in
> a way that I hadn't realized before that whatever plugs into that outlet
> becomes an intimate part of the module's circuitry.  Instead of a
> resistive
> load of fairly fixed properties like a tungsten bulb, we are now plugging
> in
> items that interact with the modules in ways their designers probably
> could
> never anticipate.
>
> I'd like to see someone invent a quarter-sized insert (like those old bulb
> life extenders that look like little casino-style poker chips) that would
> limit CFL-induced noise and signal attenuation AND provide a path for
> current to leak back to the module to power it and keep the local sense
> circuit active.  Drop it in the socket, screw a CFL bulb in, and no more
> X-10 noise, no more CFL flashing or relighting, no more X-10 signal
> attenuation.
>
> Even if it did just two of those things, it would be a boon to the
> greening
> the households of X-10 users.  It seems to me that the connection between
> the module and the bulb is the right place to fix the problems because a
> lot
> of the CFL/X-10 issues come from the "bad fit" of CFL's into the circuit
> designed orginally to accommodate tungsten bulbs.
>
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> Bobby G.
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