Heh,
That kind of stuff makes me mad! I hate when stuff keeps happening over and over again. Makes you want to spend the whole day with your face planted to the window. Just so you know, I have heard varying experiences with the x10 stuff, but for me, I was very dissapointed in it. My house is 45 feet from the garage, and even with a clear shot (no trees, cars, anything) in the way, I still had to put the reciever right in the window (even had to leave the curtains open) for it to recieve. And then every time anybody walked by, or drove by, it would cut out until they passed. So it would catch everything except cars and people (what I wanted to see!). To me, x10 is for the hobbyist, but just as they say "there is no replacement for displacement", to me there is no replacement for hard-wired devices. To tell you how much I didn't like my x10's, I left them mounted outside to act as dummy cameras, incase sombody wants to break them or steal them (thinking that they are the real cameras, where the real ones are hidden out of sight, looking out from tiny holes in the wall, under soffits, etc). If you do go for x10's, remember, they don't see very well at night, and even though they mention they are good up to 100ft, they didn't do it for me. Oh yeah, another thing I liked better about my wired cameras, I wired them all to a central place, and can have all 6 cameras and their pc on a UPS (2 day runtime, rebuilt industrial salvage UPS woohoo! Wired it to some house lights and a couple receptacles too..), just incase anybody is slick enough to cut my power. The x10's have to be plugged in nearby (unless you use a battery pack, which I have used, but never long enough to see how long it lasts).
PS- Thanks for all of the complements on my setup! If anybody needs advise, I just do this for fun and my own family's security, but I am glad to talk about it.
CoogarXR
1983 351w Project