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From: ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
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Subject: Re: X-10 and the CEbus
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Date: 9 Jan 90 18:49:01 GMT
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In article <5948@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.scd.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>Are X-10 devices compatible with the power line carrier portion of
>the CEbus specs?

Nope.  Apparently they will *not* even peaceably coexist.  The X-10
transmits about 60 bits/second, and the CEbus/PLbus transmits (if I
remember right) 1000 *one* bits/second. Zeros take longer!

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