[vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!

[Dave McGuire]

On 4/24/21 9:44 PM, Neil Cherry 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.

  Ahh, fond memories of X10.  I don't use it anymore (my current living
arrangement isn't conducive) but I ran it for many years.  I bought many
modules and accessories from Pigs Electronics in Baltimore in the early
1990s.  I still have most of that stuff.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA