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Re: Automated X10 lighting control deals & ideas
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, William Vannerson wrote:
> Good points. BTW, have you had any problems with burn outs?
Not too many. The failure rate of the appliance modules is far lower than
the $6 timers most of us buy. I think I'm pretty much still using all my
originals. I have found one or two (out of 20!) that stopped responding,
but I think this is due to my house's split phase problems.
The biggest problems by far have been with the wall switches, which are
cheapo pieces of trash. The mechanical part is a spongy pushbutton that
breaks fairly easily (former housemates, the same who did not appreciate
2AM auto-shutoff lights, managed to break two of them just by whacking on
the buttons). I have taken many of these units apart and retrofitted them
with better pushbuttons. And I've had a couple of the SCR's burn out on
them as well. But the alternative is, get this, $75-150 for a "deluxe"
model that looks and feels like a regular wall switch, so I will pass on
that...
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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