Re: I need an out of the house remote

[mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:51:19 -0400, mm <NOPSAMmm2005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Hi,
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>A friend has 4 or probably 8 floodlights on a wall switch inside his
>house about 3 feet from the front wall.
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>I would like to replace the wall switch with some sort of X10 wall
>switch, that will handle 8 floodlights, 800 watts maybe.  There is no
>need for dimming.

I meant to say that I already see
http://www.x10.com/products/x10_ws467.htm  I guess that is ws467 , for
13 dollars.  That would be fine if but it doesn't say what the wattage
is.

>And I would like to control the switch from something in his wife's
>car.  All the remotes I see seem to be meant for inside the house.  It

But this one need to work from 50 or maybe 100 feet away, which is a
greater distance than withing most homes??




>can be the size of a car alarm fob, or it can be bigger.  She would
>like to turn on the lights when she is still on the street, before she
>drives up the driveway, where she has the best view of possibly
>burglars.  So she needs a range of 50 or 100 feet, depending on what
>it is when I measure it.
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>What would you recommend?   For each half of the "system".
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>Any chance an X10 switch with dip switches could be adjusted for a car
>fob of unknown brand that has no dipswtiches.  They have four of
>those, from my earlier attempts to make this happen. :)
>
>If not, a remote cheap enough to buy one for each car would be good.
>They might be short of money now.
>
>Model numbers would be greatly appreciated, if you know them.
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