I'm in thunderstorm alley here in Northeast Kansas. We moved two years ago about 10 miles outside the city and last year during storm season we had a lot of "ghost" activity with our X10 modules. Lightning activity caused lights to turn on in the middle of the night and re-set many of my Lamplinc/Switchlinc modules back to factory defaults, and even fried a couple of the cheapy X10 wall switches I had.
We had our first good storm of the year last week and three Lamplinc modules on the same circuit all did their re-set thing. I don't want to spend my spring and summer reprogramming things every week this year so I'm looking at putting in a whole-house surge suppressor as a possible solution.
I've looked at these products at Smarthome:
http://www.smarthome.com/4860.HTML
http://www.smarthome.com/4839.html
Any feedback on these? Has anyone installed these for similar issues and had the problems disappear as a result?
I'm open to other products and vendors, the Smarthome links are just my starting point.
Thanks for any responses,
Brent
We had our first good storm of the year last week and three Lamplinc modules on the same circuit all did their re-set thing. I don't want to spend my spring and summer reprogramming things every week this year so I'm looking at putting in a whole-house surge suppressor as a possible solution.
I've looked at these products at Smarthome:
http://www.smarthome.com/4860.HTML
http://www.smarthome.com/4839.html
Any feedback on these? Has anyone installed these for similar issues and had the problems disappear as a result?
I'm open to other products and vendors, the Smarthome links are just my starting point.
Thanks for any responses,
Brent