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Hello,

I am looking at doing an x10 installation to control garden lights initially in my house. The house power is 3 phase and I am going to buy a repeater/phase coupler for the power box, I have read about problems with devices that have switchmode power supplies and halogen devices causing noise down the power line interfering with the X10 signals.

I am a little confused cause I have read about people putting filters inline with the device causing the problems/noise.

If I install in the switch box 3 fd10 filters one for each phase wouldnt this solve the problem or do I still also need to install filters for each device that is noisy?

Thanks for your help
ikhan42

Install the X10 devices with the repeater/coupler and give it a try. If all runs OK then you don't need an FD10.

When a device (like TV, wash dryer, halogene switching trafo....) produces a noise signal that disturbes the X10 signal or this device has a filter installed that does his job too good by eliminating the X10 signal, then you have to install the FD10 between the device and the power-line so that the device can't influence the X10 signal on the power line anymore.

Bert