They switch controls 4 integrated recessed led lights.Honestly its so weird because now I cant get the switch to stop buzzing.
My buddy who’s an electrician originally helped me wire both boxes. The Inovelli is in a double gang with a Jasco Enbright motion switch (separate circuits). The aux is in a triple gang with two other Inovellis, and those two are on a different circuit than the aux & the Jasco.
The first time he wired it up the inovelli was buzzing and then i explained where each wire went and he fixed the wiring and it stopped buzzing but aux wouldnt turn the light off only on.
I told him I’d figure it out since he had to leave. Before I changed anything, the 3-way worked (aux could turn it on but not off) and there was no buzzing. The two switches in the triple gang were also working fine with no buzzing. I used all those switches regularly until I took them apart i just didn’t use the aux switch at all since it only turned on and its downstairs in the basement. I didnt start rewiring it until after I did the switches I originally made this post about, because I knew it was the same setup. Once I got that working properly I started redoing the 3 way.
When I opened everything up, I noticed he had the 3-wire white tied to neutral on both the Inovelli and the aux, and the black from that 3-wire was capped, but in the double gang it was in a wirenut with the white 2 wire(hot). He also kept the grounds separated i guess he thought they had to be since they’re on different circuits? His job only does new builds outlets, switches, and lights but only started working as an electrician 2 years ago.
I took apart the double gang first. I combined the grounds and wired the Inovelli without the 3-wire connected. It worked fine, no buzzing, on/off was good. I didn’t try dimming at that point. Then I reattached the 3-wire.
Next I went to the triple gang, combined the 3-wire ground with the other grounds, and wired the aux switch and tested the 3-way. It worked, but now the Inovelli in the double gang started buzzing.
After your comment, I removed the 3-wire from the Inovelli completely and tried every config:
Single pole, Single pole sine wave, 3-way with aux, 3-way with dumb switch with On/off mode & Dimmer mode
No matter what I did, I couldn’t get it to stop buzzing.
I was like how are the other switches in the triple gang not buzzing and I turned them on for the first time since combining the grounds and noticed they were buzzing now. The middle Inovelli (controls 6 of the same type of lights) and the right inovelli(controls 4 of the same type of lights) were buzzing noticeably. The right Inovelli had a very faint buzz I could only hear it if I put my ear right up to it, but the middle was as loud as the 3 way. I removed the 3 wire grounds in both boxes completely so none of the 3 wire is connected and it didnt change anything.
For both of the inovellis in the triple gang box if I switched them to single pole and then immediately back to single pole sine wave, the buzzing stopped. But as soon as I dimmed them, the buzzing came back, even if I put it to max.
I also tried switching between dimmer and on/off mode just to compare sound differences. What I noticed was once it started buzzing, even if I switched it back to the previous config that wasn’t buzzing before, and it was max brightness it would still buzz. The only thing that consistently stopped it was having it at max brightness and going to single pole and immediately back to single pole sine wave. That would instantly kill the buzzing.
Eventually, the middle switch (the one controlling 6 lights) stopped dimming entirely. The LED bar on the switch dims, but the lights don’t change and it doesn’t buzz anymore.
I then manually changed it from leading edge to trailing edge at the switch. The properties page never changed from leading edge, but after I did the manual config (LED flashed cyan), it completely removed the buzzing on the two switches in the triple gang.
The 6-light switch still won’t dim though, even after that. Both of those triple gang switches have neutrals.
I tried the same manual leading/trailing edge config on the 3-way Inovelli. It made the buzzing slightly quieter, but it didn’t eliminate it and didnt change in the properties.
Originally, all the switches in the triple gang were Lutron Diva CL dimmers didnt require a neutral connection. The switch that was in the 3-way location where power comes in must have been a dumb switch because he tossed that one.
I’m confused and don’t even know what to do. I have a bypass i can try to install. I work with low voltage for my job and did typical troubleshooting i would do when the issue isnt the programming and replacing the controller doesnt work and I cannot get it to the original state of no buzzing. At my job i would say theres probably a short in the wire somewhere when controllers are having issues that swapping them doesnt fix, but ive never had buzzing happen and usually the shorts from a wire getting caught on an actuator which i dont have in my walls(to my knowledge).
