On activating, blink pattern from dimmer in problem location
A dimmer shows a crazy blink pattern during activation, like an old movie marqee:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YXqeZmxYmLAYXfh67
This is the second -6NA that has started behaving this way in this same location, controlling recessed lights. These recessed lights are on Lutron's list, and other lights throughout the customers house work fine with a -6NA. The dimmer will not activate when it does this, and Lutron Tech Support says this is not a valid blink pattern.
We have some suspicions. Both the original and the replacement dimmer in that location were near another dimmer that controls bathroom sconces (WAC Lighting). When the other sconce dimmer is at a low light level, the -6NA recessed dimmer turns on and off erratically. Our guess is that the sconce dimmer generates some noise that causes the on/off behavior
The customer is not going to replace the sconces or anything else, so we replaced the -6NA and discovered the replacement is behaving the same as the first. The master repeater will no longer communicate with it, so we de-activated it and tried re-activating it. However, when re-activating, its blink code was one that did not appear in the technical brochures.
Here is what you can help us understand:
- The blink pattern must mean something. A pattern so clever does not happen by accident in two switches in the same way. My guess it means that the radio does not work.
- If it is the sconces making some radio noise that disturbs this one location, is there something we can do about it?
We would be grateful for any help. Replace -6NA devices is getting expensive.