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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Troubleshooting Automation Problems => Topic started by: paul warshawsky on July 28, 2008, 10:49:11 PM
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I have three fixtures on the same circuit each controlled by their own switch (furnace room, bathroom and study). All have CFL bulbs. I have discovered that the bathroom fixture produces enough noise to almost completely stop signals to the lights on one floor of my home, but there is nowhere that I can get enough space to install an X10 filter (XPF). My question is this - as long as the furnace room light is on, if I install a filter there, will it deal with the noise that comes from the bathroom? I assume the light in this room as well as the one in the study are also contributing to the noise but they don't seem to have as dramatic effect.
This would be much easier for me because there is no ceiling in the furnace room so installation will be easy. The fact that the furnace room light would have to be on is not a problem because both lights (bathroom and furnace room) are left on during the Sabbath which is when I'm having timer problems.
Any thoughts?
Paul
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No, but it would stop noise from the furnace rooms CFL and also Block any X10 signals from getting to it.
Unless the filter is on the light after the X10 controlling device. [Load Side]
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None of these lights are on x10 controllers - they are on normal switches - does that matter?
If I'm hearing you right, I really have no choice but to put the filter either in the box with the switch or in the box or fixture of the light. I guess I will need to go with the much more expensive Leviton filters...
Thanks,
Paul
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Paul,
Can you relocate the CFL in the bathroom to the furnace room and then filter. Some CFL brands are much "cleaner" than others.
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OK if the CFL being the problem is not an X10 controlled device. Filtering it before the switch would work. Though you indicated a limited space in the switches box.