X-10 stuff

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Jul 22 16:36:06 2001

Bragging does not pay! Especially when one gets caught up in an
inadvertant exaggeration as to years of use!!

Since that interchange of emails, I have run across a rather strange
problem with my X-10 setup and am - to date - stumped for a solution.

What has happened is that the turn-on mode with my RS plug 'n power
seems to be working as programmed (and as it always has) but the
turn-off mode has ceased to function - at least during the times that I
want it to. And when it quits functioning as programmed, it also blocks
usage of the manual push button control.

Let me cite some specifics. The p 'n p unit is programmed to turn on
several lights at about 1930 hours, and then to turn them off at about
2330 and 2345 hours. I am forced to manually switch off the individual
lamps using their own switches as the X-10 switch modules will not
open. However, somewhere around noon of the following day I am able to
press either p 'n p or manual control buttons to operate the X-10 switch
modules. They then appear to remain functional until sometime later in
the evening.

I might also note that in an attempt to circumvent the problem, I
changed house code to no avail.

Anyone have any ideas that I might try to diagnose or cure?

Thanks!
                                                 - don
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 16:36:06 BST