Goodsounds;322276 Wrote: > The crossover between the circuits is an interesting question, and I > wonder if someone who knows something about it could say if it is > feasible to make a homeplug connection across two circuits not on the > same feed. In the US, does the connection done for a 220 circuit (like > for an electric dryer) afford a pathway for the homeplug signal?
X10 devices have the same problem, albeit at much lower frequencies. And indeed, turning on an electric dryer or range (causing the load to create a path between the two phases) is a good way to test whether signal integrity could be improved by a coupling device. Often just a capacitor is all you need. You can get "passive couplers" that plug into a dryer outlet, like this: http://www.smarthome.com/4816a2.html They might help with homeplug too. Unless you install such a coupler, the signals have to get across either by capacitive coupling in the wiring and breaker panels, or perhaps by making it all the way back to the distribution transformer. That doesn't work very well for X10, and I'd expect it to work even worse for homeplug. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50082 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
