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Happy to report that my PLM V1.0 is back up and working. Brian, your suggestion to tie the (-)'s of C7 & C13 worked. Although when I powered it up, I got nothing. No LED lights, nothing. Pulled the unit apart again and then proceeded to replace C11 and C3, primarily because they were the next two easiest to replace. When I plugged it in this time, Got a short red flash from the LED and then in a few seconds a continuous green. Plugged in the ISY and opened the Admin Consol. Low and behold, everything was registering and communicating. We'll wait and see how permanent the repair is. If I get another few years, I'll be thrilled. Thanks to all on this board and especially Brian and Shawn (plm.repair@gmail.com).

Brian, thanks! I was wondering about a center plane since holding it to the light, I could see a dark rectangle. I will give that a shot and report back.

So I've read this whole string in preparing to fix my 2413S V1.0. Yes, it's the original board (Manf date 2009) with than kludgey fix of a cap and coil hanging off C7 and fly wire to another coil. Got the parts from Shawn at plm.repair@gmail.com (good guy to work with and got the parts in a couple days). After reading the whole message string carefully, I determined that what I really needed to replaces caps C7 and C13. C7 is printed on the PCB but C13 is the cap that is hanging off with the coil in the Pi filter. I noticed as I was removing the (-) lead of C7 from the PCB, it wasn’t really well soldered to begin with and the hole in the PCB was all burnt/black and crapped up both on the top and bottom of the PCB. Try as I might to clean the hole up, there was no solder pad or area to solder the new lead into. Looking at the PCB, I can’t figure out where that lead goes since I don’t have a schematic. Unless anyone out there knows of a way to rejuvenate a burnt hole in a PCB I'm stuck. Alternatively, can anyone point me to a schematic of this V1.0 board so I can see where the (-) of C7 goes and then jump it directly (what's another wire hanging off the board!) Thanks in advance.

Made sure that Firefox didn't unzip the file and everything worked like a charm. Thanks again for the help.

Thanks guys. I did know that Java had an update for windows also, but given the problems of Java in the past and my wife's concern since it is her business computer, I was determined to do this on my iMac. I believe you are right that it's being unzipped automatically. Xanthros, I was using Firefox and thought in the past it didn't automatically unzip them. Thank you both, I have something to go on now.

Have an ISY 99i/IR that's been running fine for a couple of years now. The current system on it is 3.2.6 and I wanted to upgrade it to the latest one since I just got a couple of the Insteon Leak Sensors and the system doesn't recognize them (read elsewhere in the forum that I needed a newer system upgrade). In the past I've used my wife's WinPC but have disabled Java on it due to security concerns and she uses it for her accounting Business. I'm trying to do the upgrade on my iMac OS 10.8.2. I've update my Java to version 7 update 11 (build 1.1.0_11-b21. I can download the upgrade file fine (insteon_3), but when I start the manual upgrade from the Admin panel, when I get to the finder window to select the file or folder in this case, it just opens the folder to the next sub level, code and web. I can select either of them which then opens them and am presented with all the files. I can select any of the files, but not surprisingly, the process fails with some error message like wrong file, can't open, etc. I don't remember this problem from doing it in Windows. Searched the forums and found nothing like this problem. What am I doing wrong? Thanks