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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: mitch5252 on April 12, 2008, 04:49:05 PM

Title: X-10 In A Travel Trailer?
Post by: mitch5252 on April 12, 2008, 04:49:05 PM

Hi!

Is there any way to hook up X-10 to work on the 12v system in a travel trailer - have a motion sensor outside somewhere and when triggered, one of the 12v lights (LED) inside the trailer goes on for a specified period, all working somehow off the battery? Kind of an "alert" if dry camping somewhere out in the boonies?

Thanks for any thoughts!

Michelle

Title: Re: X-10 In A Travel Trailer?
Post by: Tuicemen on April 12, 2008, 07:16:13 PM

Yes and No!
X10 uses 110volt in North America
How ever if you were to get a small  Pure Sine Wave inverter you could plug in a TM751 and then a 110 lamp into it!
A modified inverter won't work for long before you burnt up the TM751! :(

Title: Re: X-10 In A Travel Trailer?
Post by: HA Dave on April 12, 2008, 09:29:44 PM

Quote from: mitch5252 on April 12, 2008, 04:49:05 PM

............... Kind of an "alert" if dry camping somewhere out in the boonies?

Thanks for any thoughts!

You could stop at your local Harbor Frieght Tools and pick-up a Driveway Alert  <link (http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93068).