[Coco] further adventures with plug'n'power/x10

[Stephen Castello]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:29:58 -0400, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>The x10 outlets I ordered finally showed up, so I tried some things
>with the CoCo today.
>

A UPS in the same outlet can block the X10 signal.  The filtering in a
APC UPS does this.

A power strip with filtering can block the signal.

If the module is on one leg and the control signal is on the other,
the signal may not get there unless something is using 220v. Turn on
the stove/oven/dryer to test for this.  www.smarthome.com has several
gadgets that fixes this.

Do they work with a standard x10 controller like:
http://www.smarthome.com/4030A/X10-Mini-Controller-X10-X-10-Remote-Control-Keypad-MC10A/p.aspx


-- 

Stephen

Beware of low-flying butterflies.