[vcf-midatlantic] The Swap Meet was great!

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Actually Neil, these things are Linksys Powerline networking modules.
I wish they were family members of the X10 crowd.  I'm more concerned
about the MBM stuff.
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 9:44 PM Neil Cherry <ncherry at linuxha.com> wrote:
>
> 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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