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RE: X10

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Subject: RE: X10
From: Nils <n.ny@intest.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:43:37 -0400
At 01:38 PM 9/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>one of the nicer add-ons is the device that makes any phone a 256 code
>remote...it captures the DTMF tones from the keypad on your phone line and
>retransmits them as X10 codes...avail at Smart House and Home Automation.
>Also, most people will need the "bridge" device in the breaker panel of your
>house...it connects both phases ("legs") of your incoming power together so
>that X10 signals are distributed down both legs.  You need this if you seem
>to  have a system the controls only some of the X10 slaves (i.e. only works
>if controller and slave are on the same leg).  Get the amplified bridge if
>your house is "big"...it's the only one I've used, other than a cheap
>version that I built myself with some capacitors.  The amplified one seems
>to have cured the intermittent response truble  I've had before.

Hi Paul

What does X10 call the "amplified bridge" or "bridge"?
When it was not obvious which product you are referring to.
I tried to search their site but I was unsuccessful in finding
any reference to either item.

Regards, Nils


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