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Awesome. It doesn't spec how much current for the PS. It may run right off the I/O Linc aux output at 5vdc. I would imagine the venturi action would need to be handled somehow. Possibly a small air scoop that could be rotated to calibrate??? @Xathros: Need to fill it plain water but a large sign over it about "Corrosive acid solution". Intruders have to wonder nervously as it follows them around pointing and the sign flashes.

No. Convenience and safety of my home mostly. When one switch turns on 30 different lights that I have no control over otherwise that is convenience. Really helps copensate for forgetfullness too. What was I saying now....?

Cool! You could also wrap the other conductor around the core in the reverse direction to get more turns, and eliminate the slack in the "spare' conductor. We used 3 wire CT's for metering that did exactly this. The two phases passing through were wound in opposite directions on one core with one secondary. The resultant is the sum/average of currents in the two legs. I would think without some iron, an air core CT would have enough uumph to operate a relay directly though. Probably the sensor input on an I/O Linc, for sure. As you mentioned with the right amount of turns. The other thing that tickles me a bit would be to bond a reed relay to the iron and hope that a small current would close the contacts and feed into an I/OLinc without out the secondary winding or the interfacing fuss.

Nice Are you effectively making an air-core current transformer? Is the I/O Linc sensitive enough to detect this? Will the AC signal not injure the sensor input? Are more components needed?

My dryer is a 120v gas dryer so it was a no-brainer. The clamp-on solution could work well if it is still available??? However, it cannot be clamped over the whole cable as there is no **net "differential current" in the cable unless there is a short inside that travels somewhere that isn't the cable. Not likely, with a ground conductor in the cable connected to the dryer shell, even with faulted wiring. ** The current going in must be equal to the current coming out, Kirchhoff's Law = zero. Only one conductor can be involved in the measurement for the clamp to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_circuit_laws

Set jumper No.5 On (two pins) and the rest off (One pin). Now the MS can be totally set by ISY The option to time out is to save batteries. Turn it Off or your MS will be blind for a few minutes each time motion is detected. Put the MS into Linking mode ! Create a scene, give it a name, and drag your MS and SwitchLinc or LampLinc onto the scene making the MS the only controller to the scene. Take the MS out of Linking mode! Now the MS and the light controller are linked as if they were wired together with a cable. No ISY required. Use a program like this. MudRm Lights.auto - [iD 0067][Parent 0066] If 'Mudroom / Motion.MudRm' is switched On Then Wait 10 minutes Run Program 'MudRm Lights.auto' (Else Path) Else Set Scene 'Mudroom / Passthrough' Off Every time an On signal is received from the MS the timer is rest and starts over.

Years back we had continual problems with a tapchanger control relay always getting hit by lightning surges and burning out the input sensing transistors. I replace the darn things in the middle of the night too many times over 15 years and finally the utility I worked for contacted the defunct manufacturer of the equipment. He explained some things I didn't know before. He sent us a few home-made looking boards with a large MOV and a few paralleled disc capacitors in series with the MOVS. The explanation was that lightning disturbances consist of many short bursts of high frequency spikes that ring and fade away. Frequency ranges and very technical details were supplied which I confirmed with other sources available back in the 80s. If a MOV was connected in parallel across the sensing input, to protect it, in a transformer station environment, the MOVs usually take the lightning effect out and save the equipment, but the grid supplied power surges that follow the disturbance would cause the MOVs to explode, as they do sometimes. Adding disc capacitors in series with a MOV provides the same path to high frequency disturbances and yet presents a high impedance to the grid power frequency that was stated to cause the damage. In short, I installed these boards on the 14kV PT secondaries 1983ish? and the problem has never occurred until I retired in 2008. There was some interesting lessons I learned in that one.

Ferrorus hole = choke. Lots of inductance to MHz ringing found in lightning discharges. Edit:I guess counterEMF would be the effect that is the result of the inductance to a high-freq current attempting pass through. CounterEMF would be counter to the voltage and cause no current to pass.

My comments were exactly that, about how to use grounding effectively for Direct lightning strikes since you raised it. Even a #12 AWG is good enough for a lightning rod. It only has to carry milliamperes or maybe even microamperes. #6 AWG as ammonium spec in electrical safety codes is mostly about physical prowess of the conductor. We frequently had to stop the HV electricians from running ground wires down metal towers and passing through the iron structure holes in order to avoid drilling and using one hole clamps on the conductors. Lightning results in pulsating high frequency bursts that will not pass to ground through a ferrous hole no matter how big the copper conductor is. Hard concept to explain to a HV electrician and we took a lot of flack for it.

It should be noted that although a nice slow ramp rate for off is great but a slow on can be a PITA. The slow on can be beaten in a program by issuing a Fast On for MS usage

The protection againt direct lightning strike is attempt to distract it from your sensitive parts...(Ouch! ) and try to eliminate it from becoming so large (not your sensitive parts!) by bleeding the charge with a pointed and grounded lightning rod.

Battery operated devices have to be put into Linking mode to write scene links to them. You can verify these links by putting the device into Linking mode and right clicking on the device in the Admin Console and viewing the Link tables, comparing it with ISY's tables. A restore device can fix any discrepancies . ....while in Linking Mode.

...and did you clear your Java cache and apps so that the new GUI downloads and they match?

Agree with LeeG above. v5.0.1 is a little rough for a newbie yet. 4.3.18 is quite polished and works very well.

Been there , done that, got the ISY Tee-shirt. You need to install 4.3.18 first then upgrade. This is not the usual UDI way but it is this time.

I never use Fade Up or Fade Down. I always use an absolute brightness level with a ramp about 4.5 seconds. This way when you set a group of lights they all appear to synchronize rather than lights suddenly changing one at a time where you can see the time lag between bulbs.

These ad hominem attacks are not welcome in any forum. Always address the issue only and not the person. You may have displayed some good information but at this point nobody is listening to either side, anyway. You have been asked and acknowledged it by quoting the request. Thank you.

Sensing when a garage door is open would be a pretty loose situation for detection. The physical location of the door can vary a fair bit and even wind could possibly fool the sensor into thinking the door closed temporarily. The closed position is very solid for positioning as it is pressed against gaskets seals from top to bottom and vertically at the bottom for absolute position. Interesting possibility to note: If the safety release that engages the door to the drive chain is released and your HA attempts to close the door, manually or automatically, are you going to come home to a garage door closer that has been running all day because the limit switch contacts never got satisfied? hmmmmm.... Me thinks the drive train is sensed by the door limits and not the actual door, making this point moot. Been a long time since I have done this. I guess this is why the thieves just poke your release and open your garage door to get in. reminder to all to block the access via the top of the garage door to the release mechanism for security.

My Win 10 came with IE 11. I just type ISY on the URL box and then click on Install Admin Console, looking for the icon on the desktop to drag it into my HA folder. All this requires working browsers. I am a little ashamed of MS for releasing a new browser with half of it missing. Very compact though but very confusing for me and slow to run JavaScript.

Here is another but without the nice armoured cable to your box to protect your sensitive wiring. https://www.aartech.ca/product/00/AMS-37B-GY/Amseco-Industrial-Surface-Contact-2-Inch-Gap-Form-C-Gray From T.O you could walk over and pick it up. Everytime I order from aartech.ca it comes the next day, if ordered early, or the second day, if not. Shipping is usually $9.95 for medium size orders.

Same switch item. Yup to Canada that will put about $74.83 on your Credit card going to T.O. And you haven't checked out yet to discover their surprise free shipping concept and prepaid taxes with agent fees adding another $45 to the bill. This is one of the reasons Canadians are stopping buying from the USA and going to China, unfortunately. eBay is doing it too. Stick with aartech.ca. You can't beat their prices in Canuckistan.

Reversing the logic is very easy but the problem, as I recall, is when you do a Query ISY the I/O Linc reports the incorrect status, for a fleeting moment, and then your programs get triggered where you don't want them to be triggered. Middle of the night reports your garage door is open and when you look "There it is...gone!" (Eastern Canuckistani accent)

There has been mention a few times regarding the particular model of sensor people are happy with and resolves these issues. A few searches should sleuth these links out. Normally open and normally closed are terms applied to electrical contacts to indicate their fully de-energised or deactivated positions. The problem comes when devices have two states that are "at rest" or "deactivated", thus blurring the "normal" definition for those devices. Examples would be latching relays that stay in either state without power, large breakers and possibly small breakers etc.. Industry has another way to resolve devices with two quiescent states by labelling contacts as "a" and "b" being the same state as the device or backwards to the device. With a garage door people could argue that the normal state is closed and therefore while the magnet is in proximity to the sensor. Then the closed contact would be called "normally closed". This would technically be incorrect as the normal definition does not apply to the device the contact is mounted on and only applies to the electrical contact device, itself. When you have the sensor in your hand, alone, (not you) the open contact would be called "NO" and "NC" for the closed contact. We liked to use terms like "usually closed" for a normally open contact that was usually activated by a magnet or being pushed. Totally confused yet?

Funny thing, Java was almost dead and gone a few years ago. They publicly stated they would never produce a 64 bit version and it was slated for the bin. Suddenly they make a big come back and begin promoting it everywhere. There must be big incentives. I wish google would win that fight, even though I have painfully avoided the Chrome load. It is going to cost me a new laptop. My 2.8 GHz Netbook runs Java so slowly it is painful. My local weather report uses it and it takes over 2 minutes to load and then most time the current weather is blank. I think it just gives up. Admin Console load is about the same speed.

Medical isolation 1:1 transformers have a grounded shield between the primary and secondary. It doesn't jump through those ones while you have a probe in your brain on the operating table.