I’m looking for a more durable solution for fan controller. In seven years at this house I have had several switch failures. The last two controllers were Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Fan Control, #14314 available at Amazon. Both devices only lasted about 3 years each. I’m open to any other style of controller (such as an in ceiling style), but I’m hoping for a little more than 2-3 years out of it. It must be able to turn on/off the fan plus vary the speed. Fan is NOT a DC fan. Standard residential 3 speed ceiling fan.
Anyone have a suggestion that’s worked for them? Z-wave would be my first choice, wifi is a possibility. Im not running Matter at this time.
As far as I know, the only other Z-Wave fan controller currently being sold in the US market besides the Enbrighten/Jasco is the Leviton ZW4SF. The other options like Inovelli or HomeSeer are no longer being manufactured. So you’ll have to expand your search to a protocol besides Z-Wave if neither of those are interesting.
For the Enbrighten, I would probably opt for the more recent 700-series variant 58446 over the 500-series, despite the price difference (Leviton is also 700-series, but slightly older).
I’ve had both of my Jasco Z-Wave fan controllers going on for 5+ years, so that would be my first choice, but it sounds like your experience has not been as nice.
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I’ve tried most of them and keep coming back to the Jasco 14xxx
Do you have whole home surge?
I used to lose at least one Jasco every couple months. Now. Nada. Difference surge suppression at the box… The Jasco seems to be ultra sensitive to it.