Brian H

1) Yes heat is the enemy. One of the reputable capacitor manufacturers. Rate their 105 degree caps at 2000 hours but for each 10 degree lower temperature. The time rating exponentially goes way up.

If your PLM is real new. It may have the updated brand capacitors and larger capacity C7/C13 in it already. Maybe a peek under the top cover may reveal something.

I see that Lee found different brand capacitors in his new 2413S. Also C7 and C13 are changed to 100uf 35V capacitors.

Thanks for the updated capacitor information. Fujicon maybe a better brand of capacitor. I will have to look on the Badcaps forums and see what they say about Fujicon. I know C13 is right off of the rectified 200KHz voltage output from the small transformer in it. Both C7 and C13 should be designed for switching power supplies. Only way to know if C7 and C13 are low ESR would be to look their type. As there are many types. Like high temperature, general purpose, low impedance and high reliability to name a few. If you can see the type on the capacitor below is a link to the Fujicon data page. http://www.fujicon.com/en/radial_lead_snap_in_type.php

That is the correct file. If you don't have Z-Wave it is still what you use. That is what I used to do my ISY994i with out Z-Wave installed. The other file is for users with no PLM or Zigbee hardware.

You could have more than one load on the X10 Modules. If you didn't want to use the Local Control Sensing feature. The Lamplincs should be fine with more than one lamp on them. If you had the optional Local Control Enabled on them. Then toggling one lamps local switch Off and back On would be missed. One thing you may see. If they are dimmable LED bulbs in the lamps. Some may dim or brighten more compared to the rest on the Lamplinc at a specific dim level.

As a test I added a 2856D2 to my ISY994i with the Auto Discover method and it worked fine. As you found. It is in the manual drop down list.

You can use the four Set Button Tap sequence to start the Beacon Communications test. The Full Users Manual link is not on the sales page but is on the manuals page of Insteon.com Seems the Quick Start Guide is now published in English and a English, French-Canadian version. The Full Users Manual has a nice chart in it. On how the LEDs on other Dual Band Modules display communications information. Including the original Access Points with a White LED only and not the Red/Green ones in present modules. http://support.insteon.com/customer/portal/articles/1595203

Where the replacement you used for C7 and C13 a Low ESR types?

You can always get any Smartenit Module directly from their web site sales pages. As it is their product and Smarthome is one of their distributors.

I believe the Upgrade ISY99i to ISY994i is still listed on the UDI Sales Page. https://www.universal-devices.com/sales/ Check the Smarthome 22% sales restrictions. Some of the Kits are not covered.

Is 28.9C.AB the Insteon ID for the Garage Door I/OLinc?

Firmware programming socket as pointed out. On all the other Insteon Modules it is a five pin header or five position set of pads on the PCB. As there are five connections used for programming Microchip PIC Controllers. Dual Bands frequently have two programming connectors. Main controller and the RF signal controller. I have not traced the six position header on the Switches. So the extra pin maybe NC or common to one of the other five. As five connections are all that is used.

I believe even with Dual Bright turned off. The circuit doesn't drive the sense wire correctly. Check the messages on the Smarthome Forums as Teken pointed out. There maybe some threads on the new Insteon Forums also. http://forum.insteon.com/

I would also say try again. This time power down the PLM and ISY Controller. Then power the PLM back up. Let it stabilize for a short time. Then power up the ISY controller.

No Insteon Dimmers are Leading Edge Phase Cut devices. Pulse-width Modulation is a completely different method of controlling a lights level. Lutron PWM Application Notes. 048360a_PWM_vs_CCR_LED_App_Note.pdf 362219.pdf

I have a soldering iron similar to yours. Has a unplated copper tip. You file or sand it back into shape and then tin it. If you ever have a chance to look in some of the major electronic parts vendors catalogs. They sell CFC free canned air with and with out extremely flammable gas as the main ingredient. Mine has an added bitterant in it to discourage inhalant abuse. I have not seen anyone finding the exact replacement for the Zener diode in the older LampLincs or ApplianceLincs. Thirty volts. The size and wattage is what seems to be in question. The newer Lamplinc HW 4.3 still has 30 volts on the main capacitor. D3 is now a glass body version. Some of them had a physical marking of 30 then below it 15. Not sure if the 15 was a wattage code. I know they measure about 30 volts across a working one.

If your soldering iron has a plated tip. Just wipe it on a damp sponge and lightly tin it. Sanding a plated tip will remove the plating and shorten its life. I would also recommend checking your can of air if you are going to blast the solder. I have seen some that use a flammable gas.

The larger one is most likely C3. Originally a 6.8uf 250 volt. My rough measurements is about 7mm diameter and 10mm tall. The Kemet 10uf 400 volt from the specifications sheet is 10mm diameter and 19mm tall. I have a Rubycon 10uf 400 volt in a order I have placed with MCM Electronics. Specification sheet says 10mm diameter 16mm tall. I will see how it fits. The Serial Daughter Card is not in the C3 area so it can stick up fairly high into the top case if necessary.

A Dual Band module receiving an Insteon RF command. Will send power line messages. A Dual Band module receiving a Insteon power line command. Will send an Insteon RF message. There are a few users here. That have their PLM on an UPS and used a Access Point or other Dual Band Device for sending commands on the power lines. Power line messages received by other Dual Band modules will send an RF message back to the PLM. Only limitation is Insteon RF and other RF signals can be effected by many things. So the PLM has to be in good communications distance to at least one Dual Band module.

Though I have not seen any reports of the Hardware Revision 2 {Hardware 1 was on the older 2412 base PCB and an added Daughter Card} 2443 Access Points going belly up. It has the same Main Board as the 2413S PLM with out the Serial Daughter Card and different firmware. So the power supply components should be the same.

Unfortunately. We have to protect the stupid moves sometimes that happen. Not sure about Canada but here in the USA we have Lawyers that try and get money for a clients stupid moves. My lawn mower actually has a warning in the manual to not lift it up while running. I understand some user picked theirs up and tried to trim their hedges and won money because the manual didn't warn them it may remove some of your fingers. When I was working for Motorola Communications. A police officer told me about a burglar tripping on a hose out side a home they where breaking into and winning a award in court. Because the hose was not properly put away. Even though they where committing a criminal act. My guess is. Better to have an unhappy user where their module stayed Off over something going On and causing damage or harm to someone.

In the early days of Insteon. One of the standard features touted by Smarthome. Was resumes in the state it was in at power restoration. In recent SKUs it seems to be quietly discontinued. Just like one of the main touted features was X10 backwards compatibility. That has also quietly gone by the wayside. I am an early user {late 2005} so almost all of my modules are first or second hardware versions.

One of the Insteon specifications was remember its state at power restoration after a power loss. On, Off or Dim level. Sounds like that may have changed again. If your On/Off module was On and defaulted to Off after a power cycle. No Insteon module defaulted to On if it was Off. Except the short production run. SocketLinc Dimmer. It always came On even if it was Off. I have a majority of my ApplianceLincs and Icon ON/OFF modules that follow the specification and a few from the production runs that always stay OFF.

There is a 27 Ohm 2 watt resistor in series with the AC Line Input to the bridge rectifier feeding the high voltage DC side of the switching supply. That should limit the start up current into the capacitor. When powered down. The switcher should keep running until it discharges the cap and stops running.