Re: X10 and fluorescent lights

["Josepi" <JRM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Asia!

<greenpjs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:39:33 +0100, Steinar Midtskogen
> <steinar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]
>>
>>> Bill Kearney wrote:
>>>>> On/off is probably OK, but I doubt a dimmer function will work.
>>>> Yep, not unless they're the more expensive (often much more) type
>>>> than clearly state they support being operated from a dimmer.
>>>
>>> It might make sense to go for LED lighting.
>>> More expensive initially, but over the lifetime of the LEDs probably
>>> cheaper than fluorescents.
>>
>>I had both LED and fluorescent lighting, but I had to replace all the
>>LED lighting (with fluorescent) when I began using X10 because they
>>destroyed the X10 signals.
>>
>>I've also tried dimmable fluorescent lightbulbs with mixed results.
>>They light level drops much faster and they sometimes refused to
>>relight if turned on unless the brightness was at the maximum.
> I have had LED problems as well.  It's a shame they can take a
> technology that is noise free by itself and then design cheap power
> supplies that create all sorts of noise.  One set of LED puck lights I
> purchased at Home Depot were so bad, they emitted enough RF energy to
> stop my wireless mouse and keyboard from working.  I ended up throwing
> away the power supply that came with the lights and modifying an old
> Dell 19v laptop supply to take its place.  They are selling this
> poorly designed crap all over the place.  There is no way it meets FCC
> regulations, but no one seems to be enforcing those regulations these
> days.