A few years back I had Fanlinc controllers on all of my fans.  Over time I had a lot of issues with them going bad and would replace them.  Eventually I got rid of them and moved over to Bond WiFi fan controllers. 

My question is, have Fanlinc controllers gotten more stable over the past couple of years or are there still issues with them going bad?

 

I have five in my house, including one outside (covered space, Ohio) and have had them since they were originally introduced.  I have had zero failures.

8 hours ago, PhoneGuy said:

My question is, have Fanlinc controllers gotten more stable over the past couple of years or are there still issues with them going bad?

Will probably be hit and miss. As @oberkc says no issues there. However, I have 3 running and have had to replace 2 within 7 years and might be replacing one again soon…seem to have lost high speed on one that rarely runs. Two of the fans run nearly year round in bedrooms (reversed in winter) and only one is still an original, installed about 7 years ago. 

Haven't bought new hardware since Insteon restarted, but last shipment I got was “current” before they went out of business.  (Just for reference of what hardware I have)

2 hours ago, Geddy said:

seem to have lost high speed on one that rarely runs.

I had a fan on a fanlinc that lost one of the speeds.  It turned out to be the capacitor that is part of the fan.  Might be worth considering.

 

4 minutes ago, oberkc said:

It turned out to be the capacitor that is part of the fan.  Might be worth considering.

One was easier to replace at the time. Ended up refurbing it and it’s now a spare to test if/when another fails. The first one to fail was replaced by Insteon under warranty and sent back for review. 

I had a very old fanlinc that lost a speed, and I believe it was caused by a program I was testing which had a race condition rapidly turning on/off fan repeatedly since I witnessed it happen and was shutting down program at the time. I replaced and the new one I got was dual band and have been running no issues since 2019.