I'm in the UK and have many X10 items working succesfully. I now want some extra bits and bobs, specifically motion sensors and key fob remotes. They are a horrendous price in the UK but online in the US and from US based ebayers, quite affordable. My question is: will those X10 RF transmitters for the US market work with my exisiting UK gear?
X10 RF equipment - is there a difference between UK and US gear?
Jul 20, 2006
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You haven't provided enough detail about which gear you want them to work with.
The RF frequency used in North America is 310MHz. Europe uses 433.92MHz. (Until about 5-6 years ago the UK used 418MHz but since then uses
433.92MHz.) European devices that receive RF will not work with devices that transmit 310MHz.Eur>I'm in the UK and have many X10 items working succesfully. I now want
Looks like my plan won't work then! I just have basic dimmer switches, lamp modules and RF trasceivers and key fobs.
Rip off Britain...
Your transceivers will only work with European transmitters.
You can modify a transceiver made for the USA to work with 230V. You can find plans on the web.
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Thanks - but that's beyond my capabilities. Know of anywhere I could get one already modified?
Has anyone outside North America tried plugging a TM751 or RR501 into one of those 240V->120V travel voltage adapters - the ones that are actually transformers (usually autotransformers) and not switching converters?
I imagine the question is whether there's enough coupling between primary and secondary at 120KHz without having to add capacitance.
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