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Re: [ECS] Re: 6381'S False Off ckeyes Sun, 08 Aug 1999 19:24:08 -0700

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Todd,

Thanks, still trying to track it down. I hace an estranged
neighbor that as a last resort I'm tempted to go ask him
if he's gotten into HA and is using the same house codes.
Stranger things have happened.

Carl

"Todd A. Theisen" wrote:

> Carl,
>
> I have 15 of the 6381's in my home and have to date not seen any problems!
> I can tell you that the WS467 from X-10 is very unreliable and tends to go
> on and off all by itself, but this is a harware problem within the switch.
> The Leviton 6381's have been 100% reliable and are very immune to noise.  I
> find your phantom off problem to be interesting since it seems to be
> initiated by ECS itself.  Best talk to Mark- he ALWAYS finds solutions to
> these problems.
>
> Todd A. Theisen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Keyes <carl@mac.corpimage.com>
> To: ECS List <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:17 PM
> Subject: 6381'S False Off
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Anyone using the 6381 switches,with 4.0 or better,
> >ever get any "phantom" off commands?
> >I have two lights that at times ECS will set to off
> >for no apparent reason.  I've made several log items
> >that are set whenever one of them is set to off,
> >but I can't find any correlation to any other events.
> >They really appear to be random. I was sitting at
> >the console once and visually saw it set to off.
> >I did find one somewhat repeatable thing when
> >ECS would shut off, thru an event, my hall light
> >it would also shut off the table light.
> >I'll make a involved items only cfg and try to
> >get it to happen during a debug.
> >Just thought I'd check with the masters first.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Carl
> >
> >
> >

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