Bob Thomas Apology to Group And Thanks

  I want to apologize for dropping off the Earth for a few weeks now
after all of the oustanding help several contributors gave, which I
will name some and thank all I may have missed.

On the Version 1 Design that the got to work perfectly on my bread
board my deep thanks goes to Jim Thomas for his great design that
worked pefectly and to John Fields that Helped Sanity Check it and
provided additional tips for me to consider as well as Bob Larter.

On the PCB Design Dave P really shined and was the layout I had
planned to go with, it was an work of art, same for Shahram. On the
PSB side while one member I will let go unanmmed told me to learn
Chinese, I want to thank Pave P again, Shahram Dashti, Petrus
bitbyter, and Eeore.

At the end I have perfectly working design and before I could even
respond several people did PCB layouts for me including the files
needed to send to a PCB maker.

The support I got here remindmed me of the old days where people
really did pitch in and help, I see that is alive and well which makes
the apology even harder in the sense that I feel bad that a last
minute turn of events happened and what to be clear that this takes
nothing from those that contributed.

In fact, if anyone feels "cheated" since I did offer to pay and in one
case did compensate a key person to a charity as requested by him,
please send me an email and I will come up with something.

Two things happened just as I was about to nail down the final details
to get the PCB made for the great design Jim provided as well as all
of his advice and support.

I got an email out of the blue from someone who was obviously
following the two threads, the what I needed in a circuit and then the
help for a PCB.

He came up with an alternate design, layed it out, built the PCB's (4
of them) populated them with parts except the relays, and mailed them
to me. There were a few emails exchanged by frankly I thought he might
just be pulling my chain but not to be rude I provided him with the
details he asked for, which was not much since he had followed all of
the posts on the forum.

I tested his design and it worked perfectly, was built except me
adding the relays and then integrating it with the remote and putting
in the alarm system.

I would name him but since he did not post I have to assume he does
not want to be named in the open forum so will respect that and not.

Here are the links to the overall project, his design, the PCB, the
relay control wired to the X-10 remote, and the overall project I was
trying to get done.

1. Block Diagram of the project:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/Full_System.jpg

2. Sequence Timing Diagram:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/Timing.jpg

3. His Design Schematic:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/Alarm_Rly.png

4. The Trace Side of the PCB's he made himself:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/As_Built_Bot.JPG

5. The Component Side of the PCB he made, with all parts but the
relays:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/As_Built_Bot.JPG

6 The Relay Contral PCB Wired to the X-10 Remote Control PCB:
http://people.delphiforums.com/wildbill47/X10/As_Built_Rly-Cr19a.JPG

While I had already paid for the first design that worked, this was an
end-to-en wrap except me putting in my alarm system, I will post the
stages of that later, it really made no sense at that point to send
off the orgiginal design PCB's to be made, sice I had 4 complete
working versions.

Right after that I ended up on a work related trip to Europe and only
recently returned, so that is why I vanished.

The fact that someone came out of the blue and did the end-to-end job
takes nothing away from all the great help I got from those named
above nor anyone I may have missed listing, I only wish he had got to
me first so the rest of you did not put time and effort in to it but
honestly, I never expected to essentially just have 4 complete boards
show up ready to go and the new design has a substantial reduction in
parts that makes it more probable that my X-10 frinds can just wire
them on a perf board instead of me having to get PCB's made for them.

I really loved the first design, in fact it is still sitting on my
breadboard working but I hope you see why I went the final path I did
and again and very sorry I did not get back to the group ASAP.

Thank you all,
Bob