[mh] Dual band PLM death after 5 years

My previous PLMs died every 1-2 years, this last one I got in 2014 and
it just died now, by showing more garbage and badly decoded packets

I tried to fix it by replacing the capacitors as shown in 
https://1projectaweek.com/blog/2017/6/2/repairing-a-failed-insteon-powerlinc-power-line-modem-plm-2413u
but sadly removing one of them damaged the circuit board in a way that
it was not obvious to fix without schematics.

Smarthome ended up selling me another one for 50% off after 3 days
trying to track down if my 7 years extended warranty (which they don't
offer anymore) went back far enough or not for my failed unit (turns out
not, I bought it with a PLM in 2011).

They promised that they have fixed the capacitor problem on their
current units.
I guess we'll see.

Now the annoying part will be to unpair/re-pair everything given that
the new insteon devices require that you manually push their button to
pair them to the PLM the first time (at least I think they do)

Marc
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