[hooligan 32]

Hi,

I just replaced an old fan with a brand new Hunter unit which has a different wiring configuration. In the ceiling box I have a Ground, Red, Black, and White wire. The Hunter fan has a Black, Black/Black White, Green, and White. So per Hunter's instructions I connected the whites together, connected the grounds together, connected the two blacks and one black/white together, leaving me with one unused red wire so I decided to cap it by itself. After installing the fan and switching on the power the fan worked but the wall switch didn't. So I turned off the power and removed the single pole wall switch (this fan is in a bedroom hence only one switch source) The way the previous owner had wired the switch was with one black wire and one red wire. I think this was because the old fan had a blue wire for the light kit to which they connected the red wire thus the wall switch only controlled the lighting function of the fan. So what I did was removed the red wire and hooked up the other black wire ( I have two incoming wire bundles with red, black , white, and ground in each. So each black wire was connected to a terminal then each of the other wires capped with its matching counterpart red red , white white, ground ground. As an result the switch controls the fans power either on or off, and I use the pull chain to dictate what I want to use. I know this is all clear as mud, but this was my firing attempt at wiring anything did I do it correctly?

Thanks in advance

[Stratmando]

If What you said was, all Whites together, all Greens together, Blacks in ceiling are
Always hot, and Reds in ceiling are Switched. And they connect to
Black on fan is Black.
Black/White on fan is light.
Since you say green wire, I am thinking conduit, may be able to push or pull in separate
Wire, with light/fan combo in 1 device.
If single gang mudring, could carefully remove and install 2 gang for individual control of light and fan.

[hooligan 32]

There is no green wires except from the ceiling fan itself my ground wires are solid copper in the 14 3g bundle, so no there is no conduit to speak of. Thanks for your reply

[ceilingfanrepair]

I would wire it: black-black, striped-red, white-white, and ground to ground. This way the light is controlled from the switch and the fan from the pullchain.

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