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Thanks everyone! So it's obvious from what everybody is saying, that the SmartHome guy was actually right with what he told me.

I am far from being an electrical expert & I don't know much about the difference between watts/amps/volts. So I called smarthome's insteon gold support line a couple of days ago and asked if the appliancelinc would work with a window ac. The rep said "sure people do it all the time". I asked if he is sure about it since the specs say it has a maximum of 480 watts. He told me that the watts is only applicable for bulbs and lighting and is irelevant for non-lighting apliances. He said that for appliances you look at the amps not at the watts, and window ACs usually use 7-8 amps, while the appliancelinc supports up to 15 amp. He told me I can look at the circuit breaker to see if it's 15 or 20 amps. If it's 15 I am definitely fine. It didn't sound quite right to me but I took his word for it since I am not an electrical expert. Does that make sense?

Good luck!

That's an important point. I indeed always made sure to buy a model that will auto restart after a power outage since I was going to use them with plug-in timers. I think that virtually all of the latest makes & models, even the digital ones, have the auto restart feature. Thanks.

That's good news. Thanks for the update.

All are 120V units.

You mean to say that I don't need to connect the 2 other wires? How would the switch have power? Can I have it poll the module every 2 minutes or every minute? Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone! I am looking to buy some Insteon products for the first time now. I am not completely new to the Insteon technology as I have done quite some research and read about Insteon on this and other sites & forums in anticipation of jumping in soon for quite some time. So here is what I am looking to do with Insteon for now: I got 6 rooms that have window A/C units. I live on the top floor of a building with no attic. When I am away for a weekend or for a day & I return at night it can take a couple of hours after putting on the a/c for the rooms to cool off. So I would like to have all the a/c units controlled by Insteon so I can put them on remotely before I get home. I also want to install a keypad in the master bedroom, so I can turn on the a/c in the other rooms from there. Each button for each a/c, and the button’s LED status should tell me what the status of the a/c is. Maybe I would also install another keypad somewhere centrally located in the house. However, in order to make sure that nobody shuts off the a/c by powering off the unit itself which would defeat my purpose, I also need to give everyone a way of controlling it locally in each room. But from what I have read here on this forum, pressing the button locally on either an ApplianceLinc or an OutletLinc will not send back the status to the ISY, and would cause the ISY not to know what the status of the a/c is. And the way I understand it the Keypad also wouldn’t know if it’s on or not. The a/c might be turned on locally but the LED on the button will be off. In which case when I will press the button thinking I am putting it on I will actually be shutting it off. Am I correct? I guess I can install a keypad in each room & only link 1 button of it to control the a/c in that room only (I don't want the kids to be able to controll from their room ALL the a/c units), and have everyone use the keypad instead of pressing the button on the OutletLinc or ApplianceLinc to turn it on/off locally. However that option is too costly for me now & seems overkill. Also I am going to move in about half a year from a rented house to my own, so I would like to keep my wired-in Insteon products to a minimum. So does anyone have any suggestions on how to set this up correctly other than installing a Keypad in every single room? Thanks for your anticipated help.

Wow! They changed their minds again! See here: http://www.smarthome.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6418

They don't offer it seperately on their normal pages or when doing a search. But when on the page of one of the kits and you scroll down the page to "Specifications", there is a link there which would take you to a page offering the applicablle ISY99 version as a standalone. Here is a link to the ISY99/IR Pro as a standalone: http://www.smarthome.com/12234/ISY-99i-IR-PRO-INSTEON-Compatible-Automation-Controller-with-IR/p.aspx

On their website it says that the 2412S has been discontinued. The only option with SmartHome for now is to buy the ISY sperately and a refurbished 2412S seperately. Or buy from other 3rd party websites.

Hi everyone! I am considering getting the ISY-99i. My question is if I should get with it the old 2412S PLM or the new dual band 2413S? Aside from the fact that it's dual band does the 2413S do anything better than the 2412S? Does it have any problems that the 2412S didn't have? Currently SH does not have the 2413S in stock and it is expected in stock on 11/30 (!) and as a result the ISY-99i kits will also be available only on 11/30. They don't have the old 2412S anymore but they do have a refurbished 2412S.