Summary: Stay away from ACT Zwave devices
I was an early adopter of zwave. Over the past 3 years I've accumulated 78 ACT devices. ACT was the first to market, so I standardized on ACT. I keep a spreadsheet of device reliability, including RMA'd devices. Here are the stats:
1 out of every 5 ACT units has failed over the last 3 years. 9 out of the 16 units that have failed stopped responding to the zwave network after a few days following a hard reset. 4 have started flickering the load, and the others stopped working all together. The most interesting stat,which I am basing my summary, is that of the 12 units I have sent in for repair, 10 immediately failed with the same symptoms in different locations in the house.
Ug.
I was an early adopter of zwave. Over the past 3 years I've accumulated 78 ACT devices. ACT was the first to market, so I standardized on ACT. I keep a spreadsheet of device reliability, including RMA'd devices. Here are the stats:
1 out of every 5 ACT units has failed over the last 3 years. 9 out of the 16 units that have failed stopped responding to the zwave network after a few days following a hard reset. 4 have started flickering the load, and the others stopped working all together. The most interesting stat,which I am basing my summary, is that of the 12 units I have sent in for repair, 10 immediately failed with the same symptoms in different locations in the house.
Ug.