X10 & Insteon

[scottb8888]

Has anyone any experience having an 1132 and a 2414 on line at once. I found that the 2414 alone is not good especially in the area of dimming X10 devices. Using both at the same time causes misfires on X10; devices coming on and not going off as planned. Anybody got any experience?

[bruceoboast]

It seems that there is some magic in placing Power Line Interfaces. A couple of years ago, I replaced the UPS that powers my home control computer and X10 communications (all that I wa using at the time) became very spastic. After much shuffling things around, I found that if I inserted an extension cord in series with the UPS things worked as before. Since then I have “isolated” the Power Line Interfaces from each other and the UPS with 25’ extension cords. This is in a closet that is 2’X3’. I use both the 1132CU and the 2414U as the X10 seems to work better that way.

[scottb8888]

INteresting. Anyone have comments?

[ewelin]

Well I don't have much experience with running x10 as it was always problematic in my place and once Insteon came out I completely migrated. I will say that earlier this year I moved my 2414 into the basement, and a lot of signals were lost. Turns out that my washing machine was the cause of the interference, even when it wasn't running. I ended up having to put a huge filter on it in order to get reliable control of my devices. Now everything works perfectly.

[scottb8888]

I have tried seperating the 1132 fom the 2414 and we'll see what happens. I would eliminate the 1132 but I don't like the way the 2414 dimms x10 devices!

[ewelin]

Another thing to try is to kill the power to rooms one by one to see if there is something within that room causing noise on the powerline. That's how I found the washer to be the culprit in my house.