Re: Nightly noise interference

["Bob F" <bobnospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

brucehvn wrote:
> I have had X10 installed in my house for years.  Within the past
> couple weeks, I started noticing that at night, a lot of my X10 stuff
> wasn't working.  I've done some investigation with my ESM-1 meter and
> have found that one leg of the house is experiencing outrageous noise
> levels.  The meter shows a steady reading of over 50%.  The other leg
> is fine.  My front porch light is scheduled to come on around 1/2 hour
> after sunset and that seems to work most days, but it will never shut
> off because sometime after that this huge noise starts.  I have a
> coupler-repeater installed, but the noise is too great and it doesn't
> help.
>
> I don't think this is coming from my house.  Nothing much changes here
> between night and day except for a few lights, but I'm sure they
> aren't causing the problem.  I'm guessing it has to be a neighbor,
> probably close, right?
>
> What can I do about this?  I have a Panamax whole house surge
> suppressor which has not been installed yet.  Would that be able to
> block noise coming from outside, or do I need some other kind of whole
> house filter?

It will likely be one of the neighbors on your transformer. Look for which
houses the wires go to from the transformer that your house is connected to.

I beleive they make "whole house" X10 filters. It iis unlikely a surge
suppressor is going to be much help.