[Hai-users] Update: Sharing a TW-523 with ADICON RLY8XA

[Brad]

Byron, I'm curious, why are you going to use the ADICON for relays instead 
of just adding an exspansion enclosure to the IIe?
The exspansion enclosure would handle 16 relay outputs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Byron Peebles" <ByronPeebles at ieee.org>
To: "HAI LIst" <hai-users at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:19 AM
Subject: [Hai-users] Update: Sharing a TW-523 with ADICON RLY8XA


> You can check the ADICON (www.appdig.com) site for the postings,
> but I was able to confirm that the ADICON 2500 RLY8XA relay units
> do NOT have an X-10 transmit (TX), so putting two RLY8XA units on
> one TW-523 X-10 interface with a four-wire telephone line splitter will
> work and will not damage the interface within the RLY8XA units.
>
> Of course, the lack of a TX will prevent them from reporting their status
> via X-10, so you need to maintain it yourself or trust it at the 
> controller unit status.
>
> For me, I'm going to put the more important relays into spare Zones (there 
> aren't
> many in the Omni IIe.)  Because the RLY8XA has a Normally Open and a 
> Normally
> Closed connector on each relay, using the NC with a zone will give an 
> ACTUAL indication
> that the relay has closed the NO side. (I guess you all know this, but it 
> was an Aha! to me.)
>
> If it had occurred to me six years ago, I wold be using NC sides of relays 
> for this everywhere.
> I've been programming flag and toggles for ages.  This eliminates all of 
> that.
>
>
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