Scratch that last post. Stop!
Enough with the excruciatingly detailed technical gobbledygook of AC and DC.
No, that wasn't the British heavy metal rock group of the 70s.
Time to speed it up.
I got rid of the unreliable and primitive X-10 system. It only worked on one phase of my 2-phase electrical wiring. So some devices would respond to the control buttons, some wouldn't. Yes, kids, buttons. There were no smartphones, apps or the Internet. There were barely home computers for most people that did much of anything anyway. So I used a little control box with buttons to control 16 channels/devices/groups. It could switch on/off or dim/brighten each, or all on/all off. That was it, basically! Later it had a primitive computer interface with simple software.
It was just okay. No. It sucked compared to today's systems, but that's all I could afford compared to the kilobuck Crestron and AMX touchscreen systems meant for Wall Street tycoons only.
