[vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!

[Neil Cherry]

On 4/24/21 7:51 PM, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

> Now to find a good application for the Power-Line networking devices,
> and hope my apartment is properly wired!

OMG you bought the X10! ;-)

Do you have a computer interface? Or do you just plan to use the manual
controller. See below to see why I'm interested. ;-)

You should be okay with the electrical. But if you need to jump phase
you might have fun. Some apartments are not split 120 but 2 legs of a
delta or wye 3 phase setup. Those get tricky.

In my home I've removed all power line comm equipment (X10 and Insteon)
as all sorts of thing mess with the impedance of the AC line. A number
of modern appliances (computers, TVs, etc.) filter the 'noise' to ground
making them a black hole for X10 signals. There are ways around this and
people still use X10.

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