All you need is a 0.10MF, 630V Capacitor across the 230VAC line.
It is the "bridge". Radio Shack price $0.58. Catalog# 90-2317.
X-10 will charge a LOT more. I don't know what an "amplified bridge" is
but I guess it is a repeater for the other side of the 230 leg--It shouldn't
be necessary. The capacitor works for all installations I have done. Just
put it across any 230V breaker.
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Rex Burkheimer wrote:
> OK< we just covered this a few months ago, but I've lost the emails:
>
> I have only 3 devices so far on my X-10 controls:
> Tansceiver in the upstairs bedroom, lamp module in th entryway, and the
> compressor outside the kitchen window on a 3-prong appliance module.
>
> The compressor module will not work, although it did work a time or two.
> The circuit the compressor is on is just a quick-and-dirty groundless split
> off one side of the A/C compressor box. Not my idea but it works. Could the
> lack of a ground affect the operation of the X-10 module?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's a matter of being on the opposite leg of the box, as
> discussed here earlier. X-10 has a new plug-in bridge, and I was ready to
> jump on it until I saw the price - $100!
> Someone else posted a very low-cost bridging method.
> Is this what I really need to get this working?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Rex Burkheimer
> Parts Plus Marketing Director
> WM Automotive Whse., Fort Worth TX
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