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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