™ ™ INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer INSTEON Keypad Dimmer For models: #2486D KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT INSTEON KEYPADLINC DIMMER ................................................................................................ 4 What is INSTEON?.................................................................................................................................... 4 Key KeypadLinc Dimmer Features............................................................................................................
Remotely Setting the Ramp Rate for an X10 Scene Address................................................................. 29 HOW TO USE KEYPADLINC DIMMER..................................................................................................... 30 Using the Buttons .................................................................................................................................... 30 Using the Air Gap ...................................................................................
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide ABOUT INSTEON KEYPADLINC DIMMER Congratulations on purchasing the INSTEON™ KeypadLinc™ Dimmer. With its elegant look, smooth touch, and convenient secondary buttons, you can not only control the lights that you wire it to, but you can remotely control all kinds of other INSTEON and X10 devices in your home to match your lifestyle, all from the same switch.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO INSTALL KEYPADLINC DIMMER Caution Read and understand these instructions before installing, and retain them for future reference. KeypadLinc Dimmer is intended for installation in accordance with the National Electric Code and local regulations in the United States, or the Canadian Electrical Code and local regulations in Canada. Use indoors only. KeypadLinc Dimmer is not designed nor approved for use on power lines other than 120V 60Hz, single phase.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Preparing to Install KeypadLinc Dimmer IMPORTANT! If you are not knowledgeable about and comfortable with electrical circuitry, you should have a qualified electrician install KeypadLinc Dimmer for you.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Attach Six Button or Eight Button Plate Each KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer is packaged with a six key and an eight key button plate. • The six key button plate provides a dedicated load ON button at the top of the switch, a dedicated load OFF button at the bottom, and four programmable secondary keys between the ON and OFF buttons.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Installing KeypadLinc Dimmer 1. For best INSTEON Network performance, be sure you have properly installed at least two SignaLinc RF Signal Enhancers. 2. At the circuit breaker or fuse panel, disconnect the power for all of the circuits in the switch junction box. Verify that power is off by trying to turn on the lights controlled by the switches. 3.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Installing KeypadLinc Dimmer in a Multi-Way Circuit Understanding Multi-Way Circuits If more than one switch controls a single set of lights (called a LOAD), the switches are part of a multi-way circuit. A 3-way circuit uses two switches to control a LOAD, a 4-way circuit uses three switches, and so forth. Most homes have one or more 3-way circuits, with two switches located in hallways, stairwells, or two different entrances to a room.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Using KeypadLinc Dimmers in Virtual Multi-Way Circuits In a virtual multi-way circuit, only one KeypadLinc Dimmer, called the KeypadLinc Primary, actually controls the LOAD in the multi-way circuit. Any additional KeypadLinc Dimmers, called KeypadLinc Secondaries, are not connected to the LOAD, but only to the powerline (via the LINE and NEUTRAL). All of the KeypadLinc Dimmers can communicate with one another using INSTEON networking on the powerline.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Step-by-Step Instructions for Installing Multi-Way KeypadLinc Dimmers When replacing a three-way mechanical switch, each switch will have three wires connected to it from the wall box. Four-way or greater circuits will have four wires connected to the switches in the center of the circuit. For this tutorial, we will follow the most commonly used wire colors for homes in North America. 1. Find the LINE wire.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide 3. Cap the other TRAVELER house wire. The other TRAVELER wire, usually red, will not be used, so put a wire nut on the end of it. 4. Cap the red LOAD wire from the KeypadLinc Secondary. Put a wire nut on the end of the KeypadLinc Secondary’s LOAD wire to ensure that it won’t connect to anything. 5. Connect the KeypadLinc Secondary’s NEUTRAL Wire. Locate the group of NEUTRAL wires, usually white, in the rear of the box.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide 6. Connect the KeypadLinc Secondary’s GROUND Wire. Connect the bare copper GROUND wire to the other GROUND wires in the junction box. 7. Install Additional KeypadLinc Secondaries. If you have a four-way or greater switching circuit, see Special Treatment for Four- or More-Way Circuits at the end of this section. 8. Identify the Wires for the KeypadLinc Primary. The KeypadLinc Primary is the KeypadLinc Dimmer that will actually control the LOAD.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide 10. Cap the other TRAVELER wire. The other TRAVELER wire, usually red, will not be used, so put a wire nut on the end of it. 11. Connect the KeypadLinc Primary’s LOAD Wire. Use a wire nut to connect the LOAD wire, usually red, to the KeypadLinc Primary’s red LOAD wire. 12. Connect the KeypadLinc Primary’s NEUTRAL and GROUND Wires. Follow the same instructions as before in Steps 5 and 6 for the KeypadLinc Secondary. 13.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Configure For Six or Eight Button Operation • KeypadLinc Dimmer defaults to operation in six button mode. If the eight button plate is attached to KeypadLinc Dimmer, pull the SET button at the bottom of the switch all the way out, and wait 10 seconds.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO SET UP KEYPADLINC DIMMER TO REMOTELY CONTROL AN INSTEON DEVICE Linking KeypadLinc Dimmer to a Controlled INSTEON Device To use KeypadLinc Dimmer as an INSTEON Controller, follow these steps to link the buttons of your KeypadLinc Dimmer and a controlled INSTEON Device together. Refer to your INSTEON Device’s User’s Guide for detailed instructions on how to properly install it and link it to KeypadLinc Dimmer.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Unlinking a Controlled INSTEON Device from KeypadLinc Dimmer If you are no longer going to use an INSTEON Device that has previously been linked to KeypadLinc Dimmer, it is very important that you unlink it, because otherwise KeypadLinc Dimmer will retry any commands intended for the unused INSTEON Device, thus slowing down your system. 1.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO SET UP KEYPADLINC DIMMER TO BE REMOTELY CONTROLLED BY AN INSTEON CONTROLLER Linking an INSTEON Controller to KeypadLinc Dimmer To remotely control KeypadLinc Dimmer using another INSTEON Controller, follow these steps to link KeypadLinc Dimmer and the INSTEON Controller together. Refer to your INSTEON Controller’s User’s Guide for detailed instructions on how to properly install it and link it to KeypadLinc Dimmer.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Unlinking KeypadLinc Dimmer from an INSTEON Controller If you are no longer going to control a KeypadLinc Dimmer with an INSTEON Controller, it is very important that you unlink it, because otherwise the controller will retry any commands intended for the unused KeypadLinc Dimmer, thus slowing down your system. 1. Select your INSTEON Controller from the list below and follow the method shown to put it into Unlinking Mode. A.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO SET UP ON-LEVELS AND RAMP RATES Setting the On-Level 1. Hold down KeypadLinc Dimmer’s On Button or Off Button to adjust the brightness of the controlled light to the desired On-Level. 2. Press the SET Button at the bottom of the switch. 3. KeypadLinc Dimmer will flash the controlled light once to confirm the On-Level setting.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Setting the Ramp Rate The Ramp Rate sets the time it will take for the light you are controlling to go from OFF to the On-Level brightness, or from the On-Level brightness to OFF. This time is adjustable from 0.1 to 9 seconds to ramp between full-ON and full-OFF. The default is 0.1 second. 1. Adjust the Ramp Rate to be faster by brightening the light, or adjust it to be slower by dimming the light.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO CROSS-LINK MORE THAN ONE KEYPADLINC DIMMER Cross-Linking in a 3-Way Circuit The purpose of cross-linking switches allows you to track LED brightness levels as well as on/off levels on both the primary and secondary switches. For this example we will use a Primary switch controlling the load and one keypad dimmer in a virtual 3-way. They will be referred to as: Primary Switch (load controlling) and Secondary Switch (KeypadLinc Dimmer).
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide ADVANCED FEATURES OF KEYPADLINC DIMMER Restoring Power to KeypadLinc Dimmer KeypadLinc Dimmer stores all of its settings in non-volatile memory, so they are not lost even when power is removed. In the event of a power loss, KeypadLinc Dimmer will automatically return the light being controlled to the brightness level it had before the power was interrupted.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Grouping Buttons Buttons can be grouped in an interdependent, exclusive-OR fashion, where pressing one button in a group triggers an ON command for the devices/scene assigned to that button. Grouping is helpful when you have multiple devices or scenes, and you’d like to be able to easily cycle through these devices/scenes with an LED indicator of which device/scene is active. Programming groups is much more involved than most Insteon device programming.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide X10 PROGRAMMING OPTIONS KeypadLinc Dimmer is backward-compatible with X10, meaning that it can respond to X10 commands from an X10 Controller and it can send X10 commands to X10 devices. However, to operate KeypadLinc Dimmer in X10 mode, you must first set up an X10 Primary Address. As It ships from the factory, or after a factory reset procedure, KeypadLinc Dimmer will have no X10 Primary Address set up.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Setting the X10 On-Level and X10 Ramp Rate for the X10 Primary Address When an X10 Controller sends an X10 ON or X10 OFF command to KeypadLinc Dimmer’s Primary X10 Address, the Local On-Level and Local Ramp Rate apply. In other words, KeypadLinc Dimmer acts the same way as it would if you manually tapped its On Button or Off Button. See the section HOW TO SET UP ON-LEVELS AND RAMP RATES, above, for instructions on setting up the Local On-Level and Local Ramp Rate.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide ADVANCED X10 PROGRAMMING OPTIONS You can remotely set up X10 Scene Addresses as well as On-Levels and Ramp Rates using an X10 Controller capable of sending an X10 address (house code and unit code) without sending X10 ON or OFF commands. The following procedures will not work with a transmitter that sends the X10 address and an X10 command together. X10 Controllers in which one button is pressed to turn an X10 device on or off WILL NOT WORK.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Brightness Level 100% 97% 94% 90% 87% 84% 81% 77% 74% 71% 68% Ramp Rate in Seconds 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.5 2.0 4.5 6.5 8.5 19.0 21.5 23.5 Brightness Level 65% 61% 58% 55% 52% 48% 45% 42% 39% 35% 32% Ramp Rate in Seconds 26 28 30 32 34 38 43 47 60 90 120 Brightness Level 29% 26% 23% 19% 16% 13% 10% 6% 3% 0% Ramp Rate in Minutes 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5 6 7 8 9 4. Send the following X10 Address sequence to lock in the new Ramp Rate: O16 P16 N16 M16 O16 5.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide 3. Send an X10 ON or OFF command. 4. Send the following X10 Address sequence: O16 P16 M16 N16 5. Send the X10 Scene Address (house code and unit code) that is to be removed. 6. KeypadLinc Dimmer will flash the light it is wired to, indicating that the X10 Scene Address has been removed. Remotely Setting the Ramp Rate for an X10 Scene Address The Ramp Rate of each module in each X10 Scene is adjustable.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide HOW TO USE KEYPADLINC DIMMER Using the Buttons The On Button makes your light go ON and the Off Button makes your light go OFF. • Tap the On Button to make your light go at the Local Ramp Rate from whatever brightness it currently has to the Local On-Level brightness. • Tap the Off Button to make your light go at the Local Ramp Rate from whatever brightness it currently has to full-OFF. • Double-tap the On Button to make your light go full-ON quickly.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Custom Keypad Labels Use enclosed pre-printed button labels or make your own The KeypadLinc button labels can be changed so you can customize its appearance. You can use the pre-printed labels that shipped with your KeypadLinc or create your own using the enclosed blank labels. Visit the Smarthome Web site to download replacement label files or a template to allow label creation in word processors that can read the Microsoft® Word format.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide ABOUT INSTEON Understanding Why an INSTEON Network Is Reliable INSTEON messages travel throughout the home via Powerline Carrier (PLC) signals on the existing house wiring, and also via wireless Radio Frequency (RF). As the messages make their way to INSTEON devices being controlled, they are picked up and retransmitted by all other INSTEON devices along the way.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide About INSTEON and X10 Possible BoosterLinc Interference with INSTEON If you have installed older Smarthome Plug-In BoosterLinc™ X10 Signal Boosters or certain other BoosterLinc-enabled products, the older BoosterLinc technology may interfere with INSTEON communications. Plug-In BoosterLinc X10 Signal Boosters, Smarthome #4827, shipped after February 1, 2005, with V3.0 or later firmware, are fully compatible with INSTEON.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Possible Cause Solution Make sure the circuit breaker is turned on. The LED on my KeypadLinc Dimmer is not KeypadLinc Dimmer is not turning on at all and it getting power. won’t control my light. The switch I’m replacing only has two wires. My KeypadLinc Dimmer is not receiving signals from INSTEON or X10 Controllers. KeypadLinc Dimmer needs a NEUTRAL wire in order to operate.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Problem Possible Cause Solution When I try to turn on my light with another Controller, the light turns on, then back off. KeypadLinc Dimmer may be set up with an INSTEON OnLevel at a high brightness and an X10 Primary or Scene Address On-Level at a low brightness. When I press a button on my KeypadLinc Dimmer, it takes a long time for other INSTEON Devices it is controlling to respond.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide SPECIFICATIONS KeypadLinc Dimmer Specifications General Smarthome Product Number 2486D, INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer Switch Warranty 2 years Operation On-Levels 32 Ramp Rates (full-ON to full-OFF) 0.125 to 9 seconds if programmed locally, 0.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Mechanical Button Type 6 or 8 mechanical momentary contact type buttons Button Appearance Transparent plastic caps, holding preprinted or custom button labels, with LED backlighting Wire Nuts 3 included Mounting Mounts in single or multiple-ganged junction box. Controls 200 watts less load for each immediately adjacent electronic dimmer installed.
INSTEON KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer User’s Guide Certification KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer has been thoroughly tested by ITS ETL SEMKO, a nationally recognized independent third-party testing laboratory. The North American ETL Listed mark signifies that the product has been tested to and has met the requirements of a widely recognized consensus of U.
