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[john u]

General rule of thumb: if it gets warm it is
using juice. Your question brought up
something I had ignored; the phantom load of
the X-10 system. I got out my digital amp-
clamp and a line-splitter and did some
testing. The values are steady state, and I
threw in some others for comparison. Most of
the X-10 is a capacitive load rather than a
resistive load, so if anyone wants to nit-
pick my values because they have better test
equipment than mine; I await your knowledge.
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Wireless Tranceiver with plug in ===== 110 Ma
16 zone Button Controller ============ 140 Ma
X-10 Telephone Responder Old Type ===   44 Ma
220 V AC Coupler-Blocker Per line ====  10 Ma
Universal Module Dry Contact-Sounder =  54 Ma
110 Vac Allpiance Module =============  26 Ma
when I expose some wire I'll test a wall mod
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Compare to other common items left ON:
Digital Carbon Monoxide Detector ====== 23 Ma
Plug In Radio Moderate Volume ========= 40 Ma
Led Alarm Clock ======================= 20 Ma
Cordless Phome Charger ================ 38 Ma
Telephone Answer Device ============== 150 Ma
I have used X-10 back to when it was BSR
and used a computer control Radio Shack had
that interfaced to the old Color Computer.

[adrian]

Thanks for the info.  I assume this means
that the power consumed is negligible?