On Thursday 12 December 2019 05:22:45 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > The X10 protocol has been used much more recently than 40 years ago. > Several manufacturers have made, and some still make, X10 based > equipment. Even IBM got into it for a while. The originating company > is still in business at x10.com
Yes, true. But has there been any new production in 30 years? It looks like its all NOS. CM11a's haven't been available for a very long time. Decades. They should have added 5 bucks and made it usb compatible 20 years ago when usb replaced seriel ports. Now there seem to be a plethora of competing products, nearly all useing different proprietary protocols. heyu is attempting to track them and become compatible but other than heyu's own src code there is not a list of compatible stuff you can buy at Lowes. As a co-author with Jim Hines of EZHome and EZCron for the Amiga's, I have tracked that scene nearly as well as the heyu folks have. I'd love to find a competing products appliance module that was newly designed and didn't depend on a plastic molded alternate action relay. Crydom has done it since the early '80's now with no moving parts, I am switching the primarys of 6 toroid and one conventional transformers in my machine controls with crydoms or their lookalikes for much of a decade with no problems with them, why can't x10. That relay gizmo has never been 100% reliable after about the first 100 operations. > On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10:19:29 PM MST, Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 December 2019 21:43:44 jrmitchellj . wrote: > > An X10 appliance module would be a better option for that. Lamp > > modules are essentially dimmers. > > > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > > [email protected] > > Does that make a huge diff to a switch mode psu? > > Using an appliance module means the lubricant in that alternate action > relay is 40+ years old. I have a couple of those, controling Christmas > lights on the front deck, and they have reached the age at which even > 3 bangs from heyu a second apart will not reliably switch them. > Attempts to re-lubricate them have not been successful here. > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
