Recent content by pipeman

In my experience all neutrals are tied to the same bus, except GFI and ARC Fault breakers.

I have a ELO touch monitor with VGA input in a rack connected to a computer that has minimal duties (at present). Also in the rack are the components for living room entertainment and simple whole house audio. A Yamaha receiver serves as the central component and has two HDMI outputs, one going...

Count me in as another who downloaded, installed, but decided not to dive in to the work to implement Premise. This would give me the incentive.

OP This one from radio shack would work. I used a smaller LED, from the Shack, but I don't see it on their site. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102850 Since this is listed as having a voltage drop of 5V, I would not add the additional series resistor. Make it fit in the...

I hacked my own LED buttons. I could not find an existing button with an LED, they all had a "grain of rice" incandescent bulb. The zones are current limited by built-in 2.2k resistors in the panel, you normally have that zone shorted by a mag contact, so it would be very difficult to do harm...

Add to the list 3 GFCI outlets Jandy Pool, spa and chlorine generator One 12v yard controller Maybe irrig controller Elk is being helpful, they will evaluate any and all that I send to them. My Ins. company wants two quotes on the ELK from Lic. Installer. I have no knowledge of anyone...

In my case, I have lightning coverage. The insurance company will be sending their "electronics repairman" on Wednesday. He has no knowledge of the ELK, but is probably used to seeing similar symptoms on other gear. I have talked to a friend who had a lightning strike a month or so ago. Her...

True, 110v protection everywhere, but no LV protection on anything. What can you do when you have 4 tel lines, tv and fm antenna leads, catv, sat, "miles" of security, speaker cables, computer network and extras running everywhere. I do see that ELK is pushing the tel surge devices now. Sonny...

Thanks Del, I tried disconnecting the XEP, but no change noticed. The xep comm light will light with an open cable, but never any comm light on the router end. Without the xep, I'm hamstrung on rules, etc. I just tried diconnect on the remotes (Kpd, input and output boards, still showing...

I've been reading a few lightning related posts, but everyone's issues are different, so... Had a direct or near strike 3 days ago, I was in the home/office at the time. Just now got a replacement DSL and network switch up, so I can at least use the Internet again. I have a central closet with...

I helped a civil engineer friend with a feasability study for a commercial client in S Fl. The simple fact is, for irrigation use, unless you have very, very simple needs, or plenty of room for pond storage, the economy is so far out of range, that there is no way it could even be considered...

I was going to say ELK had that same speaker with a microphone for two-way, I had planned on ordering a few. I know they did for awhile, but I don't see them now?

This is what I plan on doing...I think. I already wired the diodes, capacitor and relay. It works, but I used a 1000 microfarad cap and I think the current drain on the Hunter transformer was too high. It was much hotter to the touch. I wil be going to the far end of the cap design today, with...

I installed the eKeypad app and thinking about the upgrade. Two big problems, 1 communication seems okay on the property (probably with a WIFI connection, but I don't know how to confirm that, but cannot make a connection off the property. 2 Everytime I go to the eKeypad website, it locks up...

You're thinking of a diode, cap, regulator and relay for each zone? I should also say that I have been thinking about a sprinkler override system from my ELK in the future. My thinking is to let the Hunter controller do all the day to day work. The Elk could step in and cancel any or all zones...