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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2014-06-01, 20:53

I now have all of my exterior lights on Z-Wave switches! I was looking for options when I found that Lowes (US chain hardware store) carries the exact same ones I've been using for less even though they are branded slightly different!

This is a great example. Seems Lowes has a brand called Iris that's a competitor to SmartThings if I read the lit correctly. Turns out that the bulk of the stuff is Z-Wave and made by the same people who made the GE/Jasco branded ones.

I even added an outlet that one socket is controlled so I can disconnect power to my little AC unit that supplements the cooling of my playroom. I'm pretty happy about this stuff.

Though I don't get why they made the outlet to use stranded wire (not copper) when they know we are going to be wire nutting it down to solid 14AWG wires? The wire nuts they provided in that were horrible too. At least I had some of my own.

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