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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: ylaviolette on November 30, 2009, 04:18:45 PM

Title: Do newer appliance modules still make that "clicking sound"
Post by: ylaviolette on November 30, 2009, 04:18:45 PM

Do newer appliance modules (am466) still make that "clicking
sound" when the relay is triggered ?
Same question for in wall (xps3) and inline (xpfm)
modules. Thx much

Title: Re: Do newer appliance modules still make that "clicking sound"
Post by: dave w on November 30, 2009, 04:20:49 PM

YES

Title: Re: Do newer appliance modules still make that "clicking sound"
Post by: Brian H on November 30, 2009, 04:34:11 PM

AM466:
Yes.
They are also much more CFL friendly and don't seem to have Local Control Sensing.
Real low current things like LEDs still glow dimly when off.

Title: Re: Do newer appliance modules still make that "clicking sound"
Post by: Dan Lawrence on November 30, 2009, 05:46:12 PM

The way to kill the glow is a cube tap and a night light.  Plug the cube tap in the module and the night light on the other side of the cube tap and the lamp cord in the third side of the cube tap.   The night light kills the trickle current to the module so the CFL doesn't glow.