Something Really Electrically Strange In Our Home

[Warren Whiteside]

Good morning George. It sounds like you are on the right path towards 
isolating the culprit. Have you ever audited what your power company is 
sending you? I think most of us with backup (ups) that has a digital 
meter can see the sometimes wild fluctuations in voltage but I've often 
wondered how constant the 60 cycle part remains. I have a whole house 
surge protector but now also have a small solar array which I believe 
helps mitigate any problems that may be coming via my utility supplied 
electricity. Power regulation was not my intent with the solar but I see 
it as an unintended asset for low voltage. Could it be that the mini is 
more susceptible to utility supplied fluctuations?

Warren

  On 10/9/2013 1:56 AM, George Handley wrote:
> Warren,
>
> Thank you for your ideas. I hope I do understand the basics of PLC (X10) and this current crop of problems I'm experiencing, I've never seen.
>
> Like missed scheduled events. Certain lights not coming on or off in a long string of simple commands. Lots of things not working requiring the quitting and re-launching of XTension, and occasionally, the rebooting of my Mini running XTension. Getting rid of the whole house filter and new GFI cleaned things up 90%, but now there is still not the stability I had.
>
> I run my XTension through a headless Mini using screen sharing, and tonight I discovered I accidentally restarted my iMac instead of the Mini in a last ditch effort to straighten things out.
>
> When I finally got my iMac back up, I discovered re-booting it straightened out the XTension problems running on the Mini! I didn't need to restart the Mini. This is craziness.
>
> I just need brute force of time to watch for a pattern. I'm sure it's something I did, but in places, it's brought my system to it's knees, and the whole house filter thing has really got me stymied.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
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