jumon

All my new or replacement devices are zwave. Power-line comms is problematic and the iron grip on the tech and development for Insteon has been an issue for far too long.

Not sure if this applies but I had done only a partial repair of two caps. It lasted about a month before the others went. I have been running on the repaired plm since then. Added two vent holes top and bottom as well.

It was difficult for me too and that was with a desoldering pump and even a dedicated desoldering iron I bought. The only thing I didn't have handy was desoldering braid. That would finish up your issue I think and it's pretty cheap. I have some now and will know next repair how well it works.

Original Part New Part# Current Mouser.com part# C3 Replace YICCON 6.8uF 250V cap with ESX106M400AH4AA 10uF 400 volt ESX106M400AH4AA 10µf 400v C11 Replace FUJICON 100uF 25V cap with UTT1E101MPD 100uF 25 volt UTT1E101MPD 100µf 25v C7,13 Replace SAMCON 10uF 35v cap with EKY-500ETD101MHB5D 100uF 50V (2 of these) ***HLH EKZM500ETD101MHB5D 100µf 50v << different PN C8 Replace FUJICON 10uF 16V cap with UTS1C100MDD 10uF 16 volt UST1C100MDD1TE 10µf 16v << different PN C2D Daughter board 100uF 6.8V EKY-100ETD101ME11D 100uF 10V ***HLH EKMG100ETD101ME11D 100µf 10v << different PN thehose, Not sure if this will help, but this is a list of what I ordered from Mouser late last year to repair mine (some subs). It worked well and is still running fine (no Daughter board repair): 647-UVZ1C100MDD1TD UVZ1C100MDD1TD 10uF 105c 20% 80-ESX106M400AH4AA ESX106M400AH4AA 400volts 10uF 20% 647-UTT1E101MPD UTT1E101MPD 25volts 100uF 661-EKY50ETD100ME11D EKY-500ETD100ME11D 10uF 50 Volt

Thanks for these instructions!! My caps did not "look" bad at all but thanks to the guidance here, I decided to try this. I replaced C3 and C11 and, since I'm a little hesitant to work on the smaller capacitors due to the other components near them, partially assembled and tested the modem. Works great now. If this is all it takes, I'm glad I ordered a few spares for those two. Had some initial concern since the replacement for C3 was a little larger/taller and the leads were a bigger diameter, too. It fit just fine, though. As other stated, cost with shipping was high compared to what just what these two caps cost but at least its not $80 for a new modem. Thanks again!! I took some before/after pictures of my 1.B modem if anyone needs them. ---update--- Two days later the modem died again. Has this happened to anyone who just replaced the two caps? ---update--- Ok, got motivated tonight and replaced the other 3 caps. PLM works again. I guess the safe bet is to plan on replacing them all or suffer from another failure later.