Maestro inconsistently working
I have recently moved and our new to us house has four maestro fan/light switches. They all appear the same with model number MALFQ35 on the one I've taken out.
All three worked when I moved in a few months ago. Shortly the three upstairs sometimes work, and sometimes don't. The 14 little LED lights on the switch always work when the buttons are pressed, but the fan or light do not always turn on accordingly. Whenever the light does not work the fan also does not work.
Pulling the tab at the bottom always turns things off.
With the tab in the lights are generally stuck off, although one is occasionally stuck on. I have not yet seen any fan stuck on.
Tonight the one in my downstairs office refused to turn the light/fan on and the seven LED lights in the "light" (top) portion of the switch is stuck scrolling like it does when you first push in the tab at the bottom.
Is there anything common I should look for or have all four of these units in my house gone bad? I like their function and was considering adding more, but I'm not going to be in the position of replacing every switch in my house every 10 years, particularly at the cost of these.
MA-LFQ35 Troubleshooting Tips from Customer Support
I just got off the phone with Joe at Lutron Customer Support. Here is the info he supplied:
If the seven little LEDs for the light control are scrolling up and down, look at the fan LEDs and identify which one is lit.
- 1st (from bottom): Electrical interference from another device on the same circuit breaker.
- 2nd (from bottom): RF (radio frequency) communication interference from another device in the area (but not on the same circuit).
In both cases, shut off or remove other devices until you determine which is the culprit.
My Fix to Maestro 300W fan/light controller
I had the Maestro fan light controller switch installed in 4 rooms , never had any problems. All of a sudden the light and the fan switch stops working. It will shut off when the master off at the bottom is pulled. After reading this posthttps://forums.lutron.com/showthread.php/1119-Maestro-inconsistently-workingwe did some experimenting. With a phone charger that was plugged into the same circuit. Once we moved this charger to another circuit it corrected the problem. And It was just that one phone charger.