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15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome wireless kit with outdoor modules Mar 14, 2005
By M. Pearson
This is one of the coolest kits I have come across and at a great price, I friend of mine paid full price from Black and Decker a couple months ago. I have a few X10 products in my house but this kit is awesome because it has a remote that can control everything from lights to appliances.
Setup took 2 minutes after opening the box. Push one button on the remote and push one button on the base station and that was it. Easy plug and play solution.
I used the outdoor lamp modules to control my outdoor lights and gave the remote to my wife to put in her car. Now when she comes home at night she can turn on all the outside lights and 2 lamps in our foyer. The range of the wireless remote has been pretty good, about 140 feet depending on which walls it is going through. I am thinking about buying another kit for the remote and outdoor lamp modules.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Starter X10 set without any complexity Jul 02, 2006
By Mark J. Holt
"MJH"
I've looked at X10 technolgy for years, but never really had a need to use it before now. I recently installed a pool that has a light that is plugged into an outlet in a flowerbed at the back of my yard. I wanted to be able to turn the light on and off without trapsing through my flowerbed in the dark. This X10 set from B&D proved to be the perfect solution. I followed the instructions in the box and had the outdoor outlet for the light installed in about 15 minutes. It worked perfectly and has worked flawlessly for the past month or so.
I have not used any of the other included X10 receptacles.
One word of caution. Be sure that you realize that there are wattage limitations to the switch outlets. You cannot run things like pool pumps, etc. on one of these lightweight units. I know they make X10 switches that handle more load, but these aren't it. I believe the outdoor switches are only rated to 500 watts. The indoor units are even less (I think they are 300 watts) and aren't grounded. They are strictly designed for lamps.
Assuming you have light load needs, this is a very good startup set.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Good buy Dec 12, 2007
By Adrian
The device does what it says and works very well. The only con is that you can only use the indor receivers with incandecent lighting and I have energy efficient bulbs thoughout the house so I was forced to use the outdoor receivers indoor.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Decent starter kit Jan 11, 2007
By James Evans
For the price, it is a decent starter kit for the B&D Stuff.
This system is supposed to be X10 compatible, so I specifically
bought it for the two outdoor modules, so I could control my
Christmas lights. Well, as should be expected for X10 stuff,
it suffers from shortfalls. Mainly, for some reason, the outdoor
outlet that I wanted to use the modules with, wouldn't receive
an X10 signal with these devices, or with my other devices.
I even went as far as getting an extension cord and putting
the transmitter on one side and the receiver on the otherside,
and it still wouldn't work! I suspect that since my garage is
on that circuit, I must have something plugged in which is
really sucking up the signal. I didn't feel like going
through the garage unplugging everything in order to
isolate the problem, so I ended up getting a standalone
remote control device from Walmart.....
All of the modules work fine elsewhere, and although they
are supposed to be X10 compatible, the remote control didn't
seem to control any X10 devices besides the receiver mounted
outlet. It was weird....
The manual could be better, especially with regards to
technical stuff, like the X10 compatibility.
Black and Decker 5- Piece Freewire Indoor/Outdoor Starter Kit #FW3000 May 27, 2008
By Ed Mackiewicz
"EMM"
Excellant way to control outside X10 devices. This kit is actually cheaper than purchasing the outside modules seperately if you can find them.
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