standby power consumption of x10 appliance module ?

[trl]

i'm designing my home office to run on an off-grid solar energy system so power consumption is important.

Does anybody know what the standby current (milliamps) is of the Powerhouse 2002 X10 Appliance Module
?

Thanks!

[TakeTheActive]

...Does anybody know what the standby current (milliamps) is of the Powerhouse 2002 X10 Appliance Module?

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I'm fairly certainly that I recall reading it once, sometime within the past 10 years or so.

[Brian H]

I don't recognize that model number, but here are a few I did measure:

X10	AM14A	Two Way Appliance Module _	45.1 ma AC
X10Pro	PAM01	Appliance Module w/AGC	30.0 ma AC
Smarthome _	2001SHL _	ApplianceLinc	66.0 ma AC
Smarthome	2856S3	Icon On/Off Adapter	69.0 ma AC

Notes:

• All had a small night light in the output outlet so that the Local Current Sensing was flowing and the module was off.
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• All themodules use a Powerline derived power supply which uses a capacitor as part of the input. This could effect the readings.
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• Also is your off grid power going to be close to a sine wave? If not it could make X10 signals hard to use or even harm a module. During a test in another thread I tried a TM751 in the output of an UPS as the user wanted to use on in a power loss  envionment. It smoked and fries on the modified AC Wave form.
  

[EDIT TTA: Formatted data into a table for alignment / readability.]

[Tuicemen]

          Also is your off grid power going to be close to a sine wave? If not it could make X10 signals hard to use or even harm a
          module.

Any thing less than a true sine wave is going to cause problems! I know I run a modified sine wave inverter at the cottage  totaly melted a TM751 I was testing there!
You'll want to spend the extra coin and get a "true sine wave inverter"

[Brian H]

OH yes. Now I remember. You did have problems with your setup.

[Tuicemen]

At the cottage the X10 setup is on hold untill I get a new inverter!
I wasn't thinking of this when I first started setting up the solar rays! I was just worried about getting Power!