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Author Topic: Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November  (Read 2329 times)

JeffVolp

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Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November
« on: December 26, 2021, 02:32:21 PM »

Gerald Warren Lohoff, age 82, of San Antonio, Texas passed away on Wednesday, November 24, 2021.

I was going to recommend the WGL V572A transceiver to someone having trouble with his X10 RF communication, and discovered that product was no longer available anywhere.  I have one myself along with several of the WGL Rain8 controllers for our irrigation system.  Researching further, I was saddened to learn of Warren's passing.  I communicated with him a number of times over the years.

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Re: Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2021, 02:59:22 PM »

Sad indeed.  I beta tested the original versions of it and the Rain8 and he was a very nice guy.
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Re: Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2021, 06:24:58 PM »

That is sad news.
I have a V572 through the TW523 emulation connection on my XTB-IIR
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Re: Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2022, 06:08:33 AM »

The WGL Designs web site is also now gone.

Glad I do have some of their instructions and programs archived. For the devices I own.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2022, 03:43:01 PM by Brian H »
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Re: Warren Lohoff of WGL Designs passed away in November
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2022, 02:37:09 PM »

^^^ Rest-in-Peace. Mr. Lohoff.  A great loss for the X10 community. 
 
For those of us leveraging Mr. Lohoff's most-excellent WGL products, you may want to consider using the "Wayback" archive machine to DL any manuals and/or programming software.  It looks like his WGL site disappeared not long after his death.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210411014104/http://www.wgldesigns.com/index.html

Wayback -> http://web.archive.org/

Peace.
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