Hoping someone out there can help me... I have a Hampton (Champion) Bay ceiling fan uc7083t. The light has a dimmer (only on/off control is on the remote) and one day the light just stopped working. I've replaced the bulb with 4 different ones (sconce, appliance, 75w, 100w) thinking that might be the problem. I've adjusted the contact thingy where the bulb meets the receptacle. After reading some posts here, I'm wondering if it's the remote. The fan works with both the wall switch and the remote so I'm stumped. Anyone out there have any ideas or suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Do you have an electrical tester or meter? If so open the canopy and test between the blue wire coming from the receiver to the fan and the white wire. This wire should carry 120 v if your remote sends the signal and the receiver gets that signal and actuates. No power on the blue means transmiter or receiver are bad.

Hi and many thanks for responding. I had an electrician check to be sure the light socket was working and yes, it's getting "juice". Any other suggestions?

Are you saying that he confirmed power inside the socket of the light fixture?

Yessiree

Are there pullchains?

No sir

OK if the socket is hot then you either have bad bulbs or the contacts in the socket are out of alignment. The electrician would have diagnosed this further, if he was an electrician. If you have power but no light there really aren't many options

I've replaced the bulb 3x so you're probably right about the contacts. Thank you for the help :)

Confirm the bulb in anbother fixture first

Yes I did. The bulbs work. One thing I thought of: the light (but not the fan) stopped working after the electrician turned off the breaker to replace one of my bathroom switches. Would that make a difference? I hadn't thought until now to "throw the switch" again...

Nope, same breaker controls both light and fan along with several other things. They have the same black wire supplying power to the receiver.

If adjusting the contacts doesn't fix it, I'd bet a power surge fried the receiver.

If an electrician confirmed power at the socket I think we are still getting juice from the receiver. Did an actual electrician confirm power, I think you said yes.

Yes, he confirmed power to the light bulb socket.

OK only 2 routes here. Bulb is bad or socket is bad. An electrician would have/should have easily fixed either while he was on the ladder.

A meter can read 120 at a socket, and yet the bulbs still not light.. . Remote controls are funny.

I have never seen a socket with confirmed 120 and not letting the juice pass to the bulb. This makes no sense to me, how would that be possible, can you explain further?

I can't explain it, but if you have a remote fan, and the light is turned off from the remote, and you measure at the socket, you may still see 120. The same reason CFLs flicker in remote fans and motion detectors when they are off.

If you detective 120 in the socket a bulb would "detect" the voltage too and be on.

Not if there is not enough current to light the bulb.

This is why CFLs flicker in a remote fan when it's off.

Mr. CeilingFanRepair, thank you for sharing your expertise. Can you recommend anything to do to fix this problem?

If everything else suggested doesn't work, you may need to replace the remote receiver.