ws12a decorator dimmer problem

as in i have to buy it an have it shipped to me first with a $10 surcharge for being in canada?

pullling hardware out of walls and doing swaps is fine, and i will probably end up doing that. but if it's a known failture mode, it makes sense to enquire first before doing a bunch of unecessary stuff.

especially since it's still dark up here by the time i get home from work. no fun having the electricity turned off and trying to work in the dark destroying your dental work holding a flashlight in your teeth.

by the way, one of them really is a 2-switch circuit, and the SLAVE switch still works on local control.

-ken

What happened when you tried a NEW WS12a in place of a non-working switch?

gotta luv modern technology :)

-k

You need this:

-John O

I have had a few go this way. Inside the switch, under the push button is a contact area. A number of metal spring fingers are attached to the push button and make contact to printed circuit board pads when you push. Eventually, these spring fingers break off due to metal fatigue. You will find that it gets somewhat unreliable or works sometimes just before total failure. If you have a fixture somewhere that requires an imbedded dimmer, that is about all you can do with it now.

Just another reason X-10 went into bankrupcy protection. They promise the world and deliver semi-functional, poor quality stuff. Buy Leviton, Smarthome, or anything else if you want to save yourself the aggrivation. Or replace the switches every so often since they are cheap enough.

Good luck.

RF Dude.

thanks!

-ken