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From: Winfield Hill on 7 Apr 2010 20:32

Well. To start, there's my front-porch light.
The light is switched with an X-10 module that's
gone over to the other side. Now when it's on,
it grows bright and dark every few seconds, in
a good imitation of my wife's Apple Powerbook's
LED standby-mode breathing pattern. I kind of
admire the show, but the neighbors are making
remarks to us about it. So that's on the list.

Meanwhile my Western Digital MyBook World NAS
backup drive lights up with a bank of white LEDs,
as it tries, and fails, to emulate a Powerbook.
My wife complains of the errant changing light
interfering with her sleep, so I turned it around
and close my study door at night. I considered
all the poorly-designed LED breathing indicators,
and imagine a design drawing power from the LED
pins and inoffensively lighting a new LED, much
like my wife's laptop. That's also on the list.

Kaack! Now my Genie garage-door opener is acting
up, first its incandescent light that kindly comes
on for 20 seconds every time you open or close the
garage door, decides it'll stay on all the time.
My wife tells me that it hasn't gone off in days.
I'm busy 24-7 working on the book, so I told her
to cycle its power: turn the circuit breaker off
and back on again. She does this. Now the garage
door opener still works fine, but its light stays
_off_ all the time. Sigh. I really don't want to
put this on my list.

The last time it was our Casablanca ceiling fan.
It also played games with its lamp, and its motor
as well, going into various weird modes. That was
a failed storage capacitor, and it cost me a day
to take the fan apart, trace the circuit, and find
it. Yes, it saved hundreds of dollars buying a new
fancy fan, but who has the time? I mean, the book!

Anybody can help with the Genie, much appreciated!


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Thanks,
- Win
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