X10 Problems

My wireless MS13A unit's batteries typically last almost two years or more.

I have about 15 of these units. Some are really flakey and some are fairly consistent. The nasty part of the whole thing is the wireless plug-in receievers. They broadcast "all lights on" code every month or so. I have four of these units so I know it isn't just one flakey unit. I come home with all the lights on from time to time under each house code in usage.

On a few occasions I have founbd the system locks up also. This is due to the wireless receievers flooding the powerlines with noise. Unplugging them and back in again resets the units and away they go just fine for another few months.

I thought I could economize on electrcial energy usage but have found with so many unit left on all night from time to time, I doubt the economy is happenning. I have many macros to turn everything off about

That sounds very much like the "endless dim syndrome" I mentioned earlier. This seems to be mostly a function of the household wiring. Some have resolved it by changing the location of the transceiver or changing the orientation of the antenna. Some have never found a cure.

I can >On a few occasions I have founbd the system locks up also. This is due

These units hang up and will not stop transmitting until unplugged completely. There are no cords in proximity to the vertical antennae (save the 14/2 in the wall).

Does this sound like the same problem? Will it stop by just reorienting the antenna or does it take powering down? I got rid of the offending units (or was it two now?) and it hasn't done it for a few years now.

to be cut off, or it would lose its character as member! For every member must be quite willing to perish for the body, for which alone the whole is.

If the members of natural and civil communities tend towards the weal of the body, the communities themselves ought to look to another more general body of which they are members. We ought, therefore, to look to the whole. We are, therefore, born unjust and depraved.

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has a double meaning, one clear and one in which it is said that the meaning is hidden.

To know if the law and the sacrifices are a reality or a type, we must see if the prophets, in speaking of these things, confined their view and their thought to them, so that they saw only the old covenant; or if they saw therein something else of which they were the representation, for in a portrait we see the thing figured. For this we need only examine what they say of them.

When they say that it will be eternal, do they mean to speak of that covenant which they say will be changed; and so of the sacrifices, etc.?

A cipher has two meanings. When we find out an important letter in which we discover a clear meaning, and in which it is nevertheless said that the meaning is veiled and obscure, that it is hidden, so that we might read the letter without seeing it, and interpret it without understanding it, what must we think but that here is a cipher with a double meaning, and the more

nature has placed him. As this sphere which has fallen to us as our lot is always distant from either extreme, what matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he but gets a little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

In comparison with these Infinites, all finites are equal, and I see no reason for fixing our imagination on one more than on another. The only comparison which we make of ourselves to the finite is painful to us.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? But he may perhaps aspire to know at least the parts to which he bears some proportion. But the parts of the world are all so related and linked to one another that I believe it impossible to know one without the other and without the whole.

Man, for instance, is related to all he knows. He needs a place wherein to abide, time through which to live, motion in order to live, elements to compose him, warmth and food to nourish him, air to breathe. He sees light; he feels bodies; in short, he is in a dependent alliance with everything. To know man, then, it is necessary to know how it happens that he needs air to live, and, to know the air, we must know how it is thus related to the life of man, etc. Flame cannot exist without air; therefore, to understand the one, we must understand the other.

Since everything, then, is cause and effect, dependent and supporting, mediate and immediate, and all is held together by a natural though imperceptible chain which binds together things most distant and most different, I hold it equally impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole and to know the whole without knowing the parts in detail.

The eternity of things in itself or in God must also astonish our brief dura

and wants. He wants to be great, and he sees himself small. He wants to be happy, and he sees himself miserable. He wants to be perfect, and he sees himself full of imperfections. He wants to be the object of love and esteem among men, and he sees that his faults merit only their hatred and contempt. This embarrassment in which he finds himself produces in him the most unrighteous and criminal passion that can be imagined; for he conceives a mortal enmity against that truth which reproves him and which convinces him of his faults. He would annihilate it, but, unable to destroy it in its essence, he destroys it as far as possible in his own knowledge and in that of others; that is to say, he devotes all his attention to hiding his faults both from others and from himself, and he cannot endure either that others should point them out to him, or that they should see them.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. We do not like others to deceive us; we do not think it fair that they should be held in higher esteem by us than they deserve; it is not, then, fair that we should deceive them and should wish them to esteem us more highly than we deserve.

Thus, when they discover only the imperfections and vices which we really have, it is plain they do us no wrong, since it is not they who cause them; they rather do us good, since they help us to free ourselves from an evil, namely, the ignorance of these imperfections. We ought not to be angry at their knowing our faults and despising us; it is but right that they should know us for what we are and should despise us, if we are contemptible.

Such are the feelings that would arise in a heart full of equity and justice. What m

X-10 has always has issues, there are many patches and work arounds, InSteon being one of those. Look at the two-way communicating technologies either RF or UPB, you will find it much more reliable and flexible.

The arguement I get from diehard X-10 users is cost. To that I simply say, you get what you pay for.