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(sorry, I can't get mail to you at "felix!dennisg" - is there another
address?? -mike)

Hi,

>>- sounder/interface [...]
>I'm interested in getting one of these, but it didn't look like it was on
>sale, like the rest of the X-10 ("Plug-N-Power") stuff this month.  How
>much did it cost you?

	about $19, it wasn't on sale but looked neat.  I haven't used it for
anything yet.  I remember the "old" mini-controller that RS used to seel,
with the seperate ON/OFF buttons; I had one for a few years, and eventually
built an interface to my VIC-20 for it, using opto-isolators!

	I recently purchased the CP-290 X-10 interface with a serial port,
and that seems like a pretty good unit for what I want to do, but it would
have been nice if it also sent the X-10 data that was present on the
powerline over the serial port back to the computer.

>Although I have one of the TW-523 two-way power-line interface modules, I can
>not recommend it in good conscience.  The interface is much tougher than it need
>be, it costs too much, and it has been castrated so that a large and useful
>subset of the X-10 commands cannot be received (you can send anyhting you want).

	How does it work?  What do you get out of it?  A bit stream?  How
did they castrate it?

mike
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