Brian H

If you want to go safely. Smarthome has the 2472DK replacement key showing as in stock. $1.99 but I suspect shipping will make it a much more costly purchase.

It is a magnet in the key that you put on to the device plugged to it. You can tape a magnet over the area where the key normally activates the outlet to operate.

Some electronic devices. Have a nice AC rated capacitor across the power line to keep its internal noise off of the power lines. That capacitor will also absorb Insteon power line signals. All it would take is the manufacturer to put a coil on the input before the capacitor to fix the issue but that would add a few pennies to the parts cost of the unit.

Glad it worked for you and the report on the latest revision 2.6. Last I saw was 2.5.

There is an XPF. 20 Amp wire in X10 filter that should also do Insteon. It would filter everything on the circuit it is powering. It is also quite large as it has to have components rated for 20 Amp.

The Triac for the dimming is riveted to the metal outer frame. You will have to remove it and then find a way to reattach it to the frame after repairs. To get to the tact switch side of the PCB. The capacitor in a 2477D should be replaced with one that is designed for the high frequency switching supplies output. The rest of the capacitors in one are probably surface mounted ones. If lucky tantalum. I just looked at the 2477D internal photos in the FCC Database. I did see at least one surface {maybe tantalum} mounted capacitor next to the through hole main electrolytic capacitor.

I also don't remember seeing any threads here on the SwitchLinc Dimmer repairs. I do know there was some early 2476D and 2476S paddle issues. Was a bad tact switch or both if On and Off didn't work that the paddles activated. They would click but not make contact. I was told I didn't know how to correctly push the paddles excuse. So many had issues. Smarthome actually finally gave us a seven year warranty on them. The buzzing ones probably have a filter capacitor going bad. Most likely the 2467D as it has a power line derived power supply. The 2477D(H). has a switching power supply and probably the same issues as we see in the 2413S PLM. I kind of remember a tutorial on the Coccoontech forums on repairing the tact switches in a 2476D.

The new LED disk light is rated to be on a dimmer and the manufacture did not say it had to be on a dimmer specially designed for it?

New devices may cause issues. There is a tutorial on such things in the JV Digital Engineering troubleshooting area. A cell phone charger made lots of power line noise directly on the X10 frequency of 120KHz. That is not very far away from the Insteon 131.65KHz. Older Insteon modules like the 2450 I/OLinc are also X10 enabled.

The six digit ID number sticker was inside the battery compartment on all of mine. Not too easy but in a pinch you could manually link it to a module in the ISY setup. Then do a Show Devices Link table on that module. Then a compare. The extra link in the module is the six digit ID on the 2440. I found with mine it could not be close to the 2413S PLM for it to use its Insteon RF receiver. I had to put it far enough away to make a different RF receiver like an Access Point, Range Extender or Dual Band module to receive the RF commands and relay them back to the PLM on the power lines. I had to start the 2440 in its linking mode than run back to the ISY994i and start the adding the module. Are you using the Link a Remotelinc choice in the Link Management Menu? Where you put the six digit ID and a name for the 2440 into the add screen. Then put the 2440 into its linking mode and tell the program to find it. The Start Linking mode has never worked for me only the choice in the Link Management menu. If you have a PRO version. Enable automatic writes to battery modules. The old RF receiver should not be needed. Though you could temporarily put it back far enough away from the PLM so the power line was used back to the PLM. Then use it to add the 2440 into the system.

News to me too. Except for seeing an dated module to replace the PLM in the FCC Database. Looked like it had a faster 4000 Link memory. Universal power supply for possible overseas use and a AC input plate that could be flitted with different power plugs used in other parts of the world.

Do not connect the PLM to any UPS outlet. The UPS should have a power line conditioner on its input. It will filter out the Insteon power line commands as noise. Some here have used an UPS output and used the Insteon RF to get back into the setup. The unfiltered outlet on the FilterLinc would also work.

I also would think I2 and I2CS would be supported. X10 support for new things went away a few years ago. The biggest thing I would hope will happen. They give UDI the needed information to properly interface with them. I know of. A few times in the past. Where the information was not shared or was incorrect. I believe a few devices. UDI did its best to get some data on their own through tests.

Some TV's, Computer Power supplies, some cell phone chargers to name a few. Unplugging a suspected electrical device and then seeing if anything improved. Not all electrical devices may cause problems. For me I have two Vizio LED TV's that suck up X10 and Insteon power line commands. They have a nice fat sized capacitor across the power line. To keep their internal noise off of the line. It sucks up the power line commands. I don't have them filtered as a few Access Points {nor replaced with Range Extenders} get the Insteon signals all over the home. My few X10 devices have no issues because I have an XTB-IIR online and it hits the power lines with over a 10 volt X10 signal. It is also one of the few X10 power line repeaters that respects Insteon signals and not corrupting it. You may also want to see if the ISY994i's Scene Tests can show anything. If you have not found the excellent ISY WIKI. It is loaded what great tips, videos, the full ISY994i manual and the ISY Cookbook. https://wiki.universal-devices.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I have my UPS on a Filterlinc and my PLM on the unfiltered pass through outlet on the front.

The modules are probably Dual Band unless extremely old. So you could try their built in communications tests and see what can access others. Some manuals called it a Beacon Test or Communications Test or four tap test. Especially between devices on different panels. Is the PLM for the ISY994i on a circuit that also has the computing equipment or an UPS? Both can sometimes absorb Insteon power line commands.

What version firmware and does the UI match the firmware version? What is the device's part number you are trying to add? Looks like you using the Start Linking method and not the Add a New Device choice from the drop down menu? From the Event Viewer information you posted. After the initial ID by holding the Set Button On the Device and it being seen. It is not sending back any more details on what it is. When it is being sent a request for information on it. You may want to try a Factory Reset on the device and see if it may have some corrupted information in it.

If you just disconnected the old PLM and did not reboot the ISY994i. It will think the old one is still there. As the PLM is detected when the ISY994i is powered up.

The replacement supply in the UDI store is 12Volt 1 Amp. So that will be fine.

I may not have been clear. It was from the unregulated +12 to earth ground on the outlet and the common supply side to earth ground on the outlet the 2413S was plugged into. The resistors did not change the actual 20.4VDC from +12 to supply common. Measured on the serial daughter board found in the below V2.3 PLM as the latest has a redesigned daughter board. Ground tab on the daughter boards +5 volt regulator chip and the supply side of the unpopulated F1 fuse pad. That use to supply the voltage out the serial port in the 2412S PLM.

It was definitely some sort of stray reading. If I put a 1Meg resistor across the meter . It want from 46.6 volts to 22 volts. A 330K dropped it to 2.0 volts. This was on two 2413S PLMs. V1.5 and V2.1 I tend to be extra cautious as I have seen some of the Insteon modules having line derived supplies and folks trying to add external push buttons on theirs. The original 2456S3 ApplianceLinc actually has the main +30 volt supply tied directly to the hot Line input. Good to read yous is still functioning strong.

I would be careful. I did an additional test. I don't know if it was my high impedance meter reading some low current leakage. I found about 46VAC from both the +12 and supply common to earth ground. I would think the T1 transformer would have isolated the low voltage output from the high voltage primary supply.

That will not work. The main power supply in the 2413S/U is unregulated +12 Volts DC switching supply. Normally around 20Volts DC. Page 12 of this thread has the base 2413 power supply schematic. In a PDF file you can download and study. That unregulated +12 Volt DC supply is used for the power line transmitter. It also feeds a +5 volt regulator for logic supply and a +5 volt regulator on the Serial or USB Daughter board plugged into the main board. There is also a small line driven supply for the Zero Crossing Sensor. I have not seen any messages of a user disconnecting the unregulated +12 supply and feeding the electronics with an external supply around +20 Volts DC. Not too sure how the disconnected switches output would act.

Homelink uses X10 310MHz RF frequency. So the 2342-222 Mini Remote can not directly control Insteon modules. As Insteon is 915MHz. May be the remote could trigger an Insteon program or scene. The ISY994i and PLM can do X10 power line not RF. Can't say about the Homelink Poly.

Glad you got the Smartenit modules fixed. They where all built on the 2413 base PLM board? The power line only versions with the 2412 base PLM board the capacitors are different,