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[Charles Sullivan]

I recently added a new WS4777 3-way wall switch, primarily controlled by a dawn/dusk timer macro in a CM11A.  It worked fine for a few weeks, then started acting up.

It would turn On at the programmed Dusk time but would not turn Off at Dawn and would then also not respond to the push button.  It could be turned Off with the slider switch but would come back on again if the slider switch was returned to the Normal position within a few minutes.  After an hour or so of being Off, it would then stay Off when the slider switch was returned to the Normal position.

I ordered a new switch.  Until it arrived my daily routine was to turn Off the module with the slider switch, then come back an hour or more later and return the slider to the Normal position.

The day the replacement WS4777 arrived, I held it up in front of the bad switch and said "OK you SOB, tomorrow you're going to be replaced with this new guy here".

That did the trick!!!  The next morning the old switch worked properly has been working flawlessly ever since. 

[hawk1]

    

[glb7272]

Hey You Haha
I am glad that worked for you. For me every time I curse at a machine or device 2 or 3 unrelated failures happen before i can diagnose the original problem. Seem to always happen in multiples of three.

[dave w]

The day the replacement WS4777 arrived, I held it up in front of the bad switch and said "OK you SOB, tomorrow you're going to be replaced with this new guy here".

That did the trick!!!  The next morning the old switch worked properly has been working flawlessly ever since. 

Charles,
Perhaps the old switch was simply lonely and your adoption of a new brother brought it out of it's e-depression. (?)

[Charles Sullivan]

The day the replacement WS4777 arrived, I held it up in front of the bad switch and said "OK you SOB, tomorrow you're going to be replaced with this new guy here".

That did the trick!!!  The next morning the old switch worked properly has been working flawlessly ever since. 

Charles,
Perhaps the old switch was simply lonely and your adoption of a new brother brought it out of it's e-depression. (?)

You could very well be right.

We hear terms like Ezine and Etail and Esurance; perhaps we need a new term "EPRESSION" for this syndrome (which might also include the effect on X10 users when they try using AHP 3.236).

[bitman]

 

[MANOWAR©]

Hmmm, I have a similar situation happening with a WS12A. It's in my dining room operating a chandelier with normal bulbs. Every once in a while it just stops responding to being turned off either with a remoter or at the button. If I hold it down it dims to off but then ON won't turn it ON. Dimming UP does. I may have to order a new one and try your method.

[Dan Lawrence]

I had the same situation with the wired-in appliance module that controls a fluorescent light in my Breakfast Room.  Last year the one that I had used for years (bought so long ago (late 1980's) that whoever made it got out of the X10 line.  The module stopped working, so I ordered a XPFM to replace it from X10.  The day it arrived, I opened the fluorescent light and prepared to disconnect to old module. just for giggles, I triggered the SS13 to turn it on and the module clicked and the tubes turned on. 

So I closed up the light, opened AHP and turned it on and off 5 times, ran the macro to turn of all modules on 3 housecodes off, used AHP to turn it on again and put the new one's box in my X10 Spare box. This spring, the old one finally died so the new one went it and the old one and the trash can got to be friends.