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Several years ago when remodeling my basement, I decided to upgrade my smoke detectors and put CO detectors in all rooms. The smoke detectors were about 13 years old. They were 110 volt with no battery backup. I pulled out all of the 110 volt wiring and put in 12 volt detectors wired to my...

Yeah, those are great for the kitchen and such, but we do not have room for a full can in our suspended ceiling.

Several years ago, I installed the LiteSpeed system in my basement remodel. We did not have a ton of headroom, nor a lot of extra power, so this worked great. Overall, I am was extremely happy with the look and the install. A couple of issues that I do have is that the bulbs do not last. It...

I have a couple of the EcoSmart LED A19 bulbs. They dim great and have lasted a long time. I bought one of the Phillips that is meant for a can fixture and it flickers as described above and aventually went out. I also had 3 of the Phillips A bulbs in another fixture and one of them went dead...

Which humidifier do you have? Did you have to modify the humidifier itself to control the thermostat? Can you post the programming you used as well as a wiring diagram. This is exactly what I am trying to accomplish right now.

When I finished my basement, I ran a bundle of 2 cat5 and 2 RG6 Quad Shield to every location. Currently, I have all of these coming into my 42" Leviton Can. Only 6 of 20 or so are terminated, and the reality is, only 2 are active. There is a ton of wiring in the can that is not used. I am...

I had a similar situation with a 240 and a Ceiling fan light. I had just installed the fan, and could not tell if the light was on or off from the pull switch. When I tugged on the pull switch, the lights came on and flickered. At that moment my wife walked in and told me that the box was...

There are two different humidifier types. One uses a bypass duct between the air return and the conditioned plenum. These often work off of 24 volts, which is the output of the Humidifier terminals according to the directions. Some humidifiers, like mine, do not use the bypass and use a...

I am referring to the new locksets. I thought HAI was offering support for them.

What is needed to interface the Shlage locks with HAI? If I am currently using UPB, will this be compatible?

Watching Ask This Old House the other day, they had a retrofit heating zone system that used air bladders in the ducts for zoning. I looked up the system they used, and it ran $5k plus. I have done some searching and found a place that you can get a basic kit for less than $1000. Ideally, I...

My OmniPro II is no longer getting network link. To be honest, I have not used the ethernet in at least 6 months, so I do not know when it broke. I was excited to see that the new .NET SDK was out and wanted to plug away at a project that I have been waiting to do. Any thoughts on...

Not to hijack the thread, but I am tight on breakers in my panel. Close to my panel (about 2 feet), I have an outlet that is on one phase, and a circuit to another room on the other phase runs through the same junction box. Is there any reason I could not tap off of both of these instead of...

Not at this time, but that functionality will be supported in the near future. It is actually a pretty easy code add, but I want to solidify the base functionality first. Also, currently, it does not update status on links, but that will be added as well. It does do a requery every hour, so...

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Another nice feature would be a slightly smaller body. I have some odd junction boxes that need to have some ears ground down to fit the UPB devices in a two gang box.

I am in a similar situation. I have a coupler that I am going to give a try. The problem is, one of the offending devices is portable and I am not sure of the logistice of using a plug in filter on it. It happens to be my sons ventilator, and seems to mainly affect the status messages from...

I have an existing structured wiring can that is sitting between studs in my utility closet. It is full, and I would like to move all of the coax (I have two coax to every jack on the basement and first floor level after a remodel) and related components to a seperate can. The stud space to...

When considering doing phase alignment, take into consideration that most residential wiring relies on a shared neutral for opposing phases. What this means is that two rooms close together but exist on seperate circuits will go up in the same conduit with two hots and one neutral. This relies...

If you only want to control on and off, how about finding a fan with a wall mounted speed control and wiring it in series with a UPB relay? This would give you on/off control via automation along with ease of access to the speed controller. While it sounds like you might be able to use an I/O...