25 Jun
2001
25 Jun
'01
12:17 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
My experience is that the X10 toys aren't
long-term reliable. Since
1997 when I got started, I have had 2 light switches fail (one liked
to oscillate instead of switch on or off; the other was for the
bathroom, and got used enough that its pushbutton contacts failed), an
X10 switched outlet failed after only a few months, another outlet
sometimes switches itself on with no input like some kind of
poltergeist (but it has been a while since that happened...) and some
others are just generally flaky (don't receive the commands
sometimes).
I never had so many problems, but then I never used the wall outlets,
always the modules (but I do have one of the wall outlets that I never
used). It sounds like you may have had noisy power lines which were
causing the problems. Did you only use them in one location (i.e. your
house)?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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