Dave Lag wrote:
> William Chops Westfield wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
>>
>>> And one day I will gather up all the debugging tips I can find and
>>> put them in one online page.
>>>
>>
>> I have a wall switch in an outlying building.  After being pleasanyly
>> surprised that it worked at all, it seems to have falling into a mode
>> where the X10 controllers have trouble turning it on, but can reliably
>> turn it OFF.  Got any suggestions or explanations?
>>
>> BillW
> 
> ISTR that the wall switches had a disadvantage by obtaining the received 
> signal in series with the bulb?
> Tried unsuccessfuly a modification (from IDO's site?).
> 
> Other modules that connect to the neutral and hot "seem" to work better.

Most switch boxes don't have the neutral so it's a problem. I seem
to be lucky as most of mine do (weird).

BTW, thanks for the reminder on the switch/bulb problem. I had
forgotten about that.

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