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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: geek on December 11, 2006, 11:34:33 PM
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Noticed a lamp was out and changed the bulb only to find that not one of three sockets i had would work. Worked in it before with no problem, but strange that all three i tried now would not work. Also I have a lamp module and an appliance module that no longer work, and have basically never been used. Is this a common problem? and more important, is there a fix?
thanks for any help in advance.
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Noticed a lamp was out and changed the bulb only to find that not one of three sockets i had would work. Worked in it before with no problem, but strange that all three i tried now would not work. Also I have a lamp module and an appliance module that no longer work, and have basically never been used. Is this a common problem? and more important, is there a fix?
thanks for any help in advance.
Have you recently purchased a new electronic appliance like a PC, UPS, TV, or Stereo? Switching power supplies on devices like this can either generate noise on the powerline or short out the X10 signal. If so, a special X10 noise filter between the offending appliance and the wall socket is the fix. (Test an appliance by unplugging from the wall - merely turning it off isn't enough.)
Some compact fluorescent lights can also create similar problems.
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....and, what are you using to control them?