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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: froggy on November 12, 2006, 05:24:14 PM

Title: contact closure to trigger transmit X10 command code to an Applicance module
Post by: froggy on November 12, 2006, 05:24:14 PM

I am interested in some comment on how I can best use a switch contact closure to trigger the transmision of an X10 code to activate an applicance module at another location.  In effect, I need to trigger an X10 wall switch triggerd by a spst contact.  Any suggestions? 
The universal module works on the  recreiving end of the command transmission. 
I need a similar kind of a module that acts as an X10 switch with an external isolated dry contract closure.

Title: Re: contact closure to trigger transmit X10 command code to an Applicance module
Post by: Puck on November 12, 2006, 05:28:58 PM

The Opposite of Universal Module is the PowerFlash (http://www.x10.com/security/x10_pf284.htm)

Title: Re: contact closure to trigger transmit X10 command code to an Applicance module
Post by: Brian H on November 12, 2006, 06:17:21 PM

Powerflash will do what you want.
I have one triggered by a doorbell current sensor [it can accept a low DC or AC voltage also besides the dry contact trigger]. It sounds a chime module in the cellar where I can't always hear the doorbell.