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Battery Packs for X-10 Cameras?

Posted by Cliff on from the liberation-from-the-wallwart dept.

dustinc20 asks: "I dont know if this is the right area, but being as this is a geek site I'd ask my fellow geeks if anyone knows a way to build a battery pack for one of those X-10 cameras. It has a frequency encoder(?) in the power supply and this makes it more complicated than just supplying 12vDC."

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  1. hmm.. by seann · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At radioshack we had wireless cameras simular to X10's (In a way) that also had battery packs! We slammed them on some RC vechicals, threw them in the roof to lay some wire.

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  2. X10 Eavesdropping by c0wh · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Considering how easy it is to intercept X10 transmissions, why would you want to bother?

    (registration required) Here's an article at the New York Times with a little more detail.

  3. Re:X10 cameras are a signal of cultural change by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The only people I know with one use it to watch their kids. When their kids are playing in the den they can "spy" on them from the kitchen TV. A novelty at first, now they only use it when they hear screams from the den, to see which kid is hitting which so they can add the correct name when they yell "Knock it off!" Much better than when I was a kid, and Mom always blamed the wrong brother.

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