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Paul1977

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#288319 20-Jun-2021 18:05
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I have an Aeotec Dual Nano Switch which was originally wired with standard switches. I changed these to momentary press switches, but they just aren’t working and I’m scratching my head.

If I leave the setting as normal switches, the lights turn on when I hold the momentary press switch down and turn off as son as I release it. This is what I’d expect with a momentary press switch but the Aeotec still set for a normal switch.

But when I change the setting to momentary press switches (to match what is now wired) they don’t work at all.

I have numerous Nano Dimmers with momentary press switches that work fine. This is the only dual nano switch I have.

Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Actually one thing was odd with the original wiring. The sparky had one of the switches wired using the “2” terminal instead of the “1” (which was empty). I thought it seemed odd, but did a like-for-like swap and did it the same way. Now I’m wondering if that could be part of the issue?

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Paul1977

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  #2731776 20-Jun-2021 23:14
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It was because one of the switches was wired using terminal 2. When I stopped and thought about it it made sense why it would work like that on a regular switch, but not a momentary press switch. It would have just inverted the on/off positions on the regular switch, but since I could switch it on and off via the smarts I never realised this. But duplicating this on a momentary press switch was never going to work.

 

Anyway, changing it to terminal 1 on the momentary press switch sorted it.


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