RE: X10 FD10 filter advice

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you still have any Christmas lighting operating or any other kind
of lighting that's new? These can be notoriously bad for causing X10
interference. Just wondered given that you mentioned it started at
Christmas...

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Marcus Warrington
> Sent: 21 January 2008 11:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] X10 FD10 filter advice
>
> Over the Christmas period (and now beyond) I've noticed that we have
> started having trouble with our X10 lighting. This is mainly
> manifesting
> itself with the lights turning themselves off. Looking at the
> HomeVision
> logs it looks like we are periodically getting bursts of random
> messages
> on random house codes. Mainly these seem to be status hails and status
> responses etc so I suspect its noise on the line that is sometimes
> being
> seen as valid X10 codes. I've not notices these before so suspect they
> are a relatively new thing but I could be wrong.  I've unplugged all
> the
> RF receivers in case it as picking up RF signals but its still doing
> it.
> Next step is to eliminate the possibility of noise coming into our
> house
> on the mains from outside by installing an FD10 filter at the consumer
> unit.
>
>
>
> Looking at the FD10 its says its rated for 64 amps but the master fuse
> feeding the house is 100amps, so is it OK to install the F10 at the
> consumer unit immediately after the main MCB (is 64amps enough to feed
> a
> whole house safely ?), or should I be looking at installing 2 FD10's
> one
> for the lighting side and one for the Socket side .. and if so how do
I
> link the X10 signals between each circuit ?
>
>
>
> Marcus
>
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