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Jimmy Dale Reeves

Jan 1, 1970
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I have a customer that is wanting x-10 in his home. His house is approx
10,000 ft. He has 5 electrical panels. Will x-10 be able to send the
commands throughout the entire house?

Thank you
Jimmy Dale Reeves
Elite Security, LLC
 
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joe

Jan 1, 1970
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Jimmy said:
I have a customer that is wanting x-10 in his home. His house is approx
10,000 ft. He has 5 electrical panels. Will x-10 be able to send the
commands throughout the entire house?

Thank you
Jimmy Dale Reeves
Elite Security, LLC
maybe, sometimes.
 
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Rich

Jan 1, 1970
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If it is all phased the same.
Maybe he need an electrician
 
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Frank Olson

Jan 1, 1970
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Jimmy Dale Reeves said:
I have a customer that is wanting x-10 in his home. His house is approx
10,000 ft. He has 5 electrical panels. Will x-10 be able to send the
commands throughout the entire house?

Thank you
Jimmy Dale Reeves
Elite Security, LLC


You're going to need a coupler/repeater - X-10 Pro model "XPCR". This is
recommended for homes over 5000 square feet. It also happens to be a signal
amplifier.
 
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Jim

Jan 1, 1970
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Jimmy said:
I have a customer that is wanting x-10 in his home. His house is approx
10,000 ft. He has 5 electrical panels. Will x-10 be able to send the
commands throughout the entire house?

Thank you
Jimmy Dale Reeves
Elite Security, LLC

You'll need to provide a lot more information than that. How much X10?

What kind of devices? How many of each kind of device? What does he
want to control? If there is more than just a few items, you can expect
to spend a few hundred dollars or more, just to prepare and set the
homes wiring up to properly send and receive X10 signals more reliably.


Although I could likely help you get started, I'd suggest that you will
get much more detailed help from a Home automation newsgroup than an
alarm newsgroup if your project is of any size. There are some people
in this group that can direct you to another group that is mentioned
occasionally here.

I'll be away for a week or so, so I don't want to start a thread with
you and then leave you stranded.
 
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autonut843

Jan 1, 1970
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I'd recommend not going with X-10 in this situation. I don't have a
bunch of X-10 experience but my experience has been that it just
doesn't expand well. Control a few things, fine. Expect it to be
robust, problems come a plenty. However, maybe others with a lot of
X-10 experience know the tricks and will say otherwise. I use it to
control a handful of lights using the output of my Ademco panel and
that is fine, but when I tried computer control and remote control,
things just didn't stay reliable. Signal collisions caused lights to
stay on occasionally and the X-10 remotes just weren't worth it. If
you do decide to go ahead with it, I'd let the customer know that it
may not be bulletproof. Good luck, let us know how it works out.
 
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