[geeks] Has anyone used power-line communications?

[Dan Duncan]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM,  <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:
> Since almost every home in the US and AFAIK Canada uses 240 volts two phase power
> (split into two 120 volt "sides" at the main panel),
> there is a 50% chance what you want to communicate to and from will be on
> the wrong phase.

I ran into this problem back when I used X10 a lot and the fix was to
connect a .1 uF capacitor across the two phases.  Does that work in
this case as well?

-- 
Dan Duncan