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X10 and New Home Theater

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onehawkeye

Discussion Starter · Oct 19, 2004

We are going to be building a house with a home theater in the basement, I am starting to look into some automation. I have a couple of X10 wall switches in my current house that have dim on/off features, they are controlled by a radio receiver that plugs into the wall and a remote. When I turn the lights on or off, the receiver emits a very loud click, it almost sounds like a mouse trap. Do all X10 systems work this way or do I just have a cheap piece of crap, I don't want to purchase a large amount of X10 pieces for my theater if this is the way they all work. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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maddogmc

· #2 · Oct 19, 2004

The click you hear is from a switch with a mechanical relay in it. Such switches are normally used for appliances or Fluorescent loads. Dimming switches are silent; the control elements are solid state devices. Before purchasing X-10 devices, you should use the search function on this forum. There is a lot of information on various features and brands, good and bad.

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brickie

· #3 · Oct 19, 2004

I agree do your homework before making final desicion.I have some X10 and like it, but when I do a dedicated romm i'll be probably going Lutron.That said, if you do go X10 look at smarthome for some of the nicer X10 products.

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tvtech1

· #4 · Oct 19, 2004

The receiver has an appliance module built into it. It's address can usually be set to 1 or 9, set it to an address you don't use, or, open the module up and disable the relay.

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