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Re: Automated X10 lighting control deals & ideas
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, William Vannerson wrote:
> Does it check to make sure you locked the doors too? Just kidding.
Sadly, I will have to install that part on my own. (No kidding, we really
are! along with something that checks if the oven or other appliances are
left on.)
> Can you describe how you set up your curcuits? Especially the fluorescent lights.
Nothing fancy here. Each fluorescent ballast is plugged into a different
appliance module. (I use house "A" for regular house lights, and "B" for
aquarium modules, and "C" for porch, heater setbacks, etc. We keep a
bunch of hand controllers all over the house that work on "A", so we don't
turn off the fish tanks accidentally.) So down in the fishroom we have B1
and B2 for the big 75 gallon tank, B3 for the main rack, B4 for the
secondary rack, B5 for the little 20-gallon tank, and B6 for the 10-gallon
tank, etc., etc. The timer module is programmed to turn most of them on
starting 9:30 or so in the morning, staggered 2-minutes apart for each
module. Same thing for turning off around 9:30 PM.
Another problem I forgot to mention in the other post is that if you live
in a house, you have to worry about the split phase power, and the x10
signal not getting from one circuit to the other. They sell special
couplers to deal with this. There's a lot of good articles by "Uncle
Phil" Kingery about this over at http://www.hometoys.com
Aside from this stuff, I've replaced every wall switch in the house with
an X10-capable one, and every incandescent light that plugs into the wall
no goes through a module.
OK, sorry for the increasingly non-fish-content here.
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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