I am about to take this to a professional since I am not 100% sure of the wiring in this crica 1950 home.

We had a light fixture in this bedroom what was connected to a wall dimmer and the wires in the ceiling were black (3 capped together) 3 white capped and leading to the white on the light, and 1 red leading to the black on the light. And ground green to the box.

I tried a Hunter fan with Hunter remote as specified by Hunter, and cannot get the fan or lights to go. First time I had it, the lights went on and never came back on. The fan never went.

I had that as the RED from the house power to the Black on the remote and the white on the remote to the white on the house power and left the blacks all capped and of course wired up the fan to the ground.

After re-reading the remote, I had not yet hooked up the lower part of the fan to get the pull chain on and also found that I should have the black house power to the remote black and white to white still for remote to house power. I now have the red capped off. Not sure how the lights now will work. I now think the RED is hot.

When the breaker used to be turned off, the light fixture used to go out, but the outlet across the room where I think the black was running to also went out. The dimmer does not affect the outlet of course so there are 2 circuits.

Any ideas how to hook this up? I am now thinking the RED should be put back to black house power, and recap all the blacks back together and leave away from the fan/remote. White to White stays, and ground.

My thinking is that when I had RED to remote black, I heard the unit hum, but had no lights or pull chain set. Reading the remote manual pushed me away from RED and reading some of these articals leads me thinking I was right before.

Thanks for any help, I should call a pro, just not sure yet.

Ok. Here is how it would be hooked:

Red from ceiling to remote black. White from ceiling to remote white. The other side of the remote should have three wires that hook to the fan.

You can try testing it without the remote to make sure everything works. You would hook the black AND the black/striped wire from the fan to the red, and the white from the fan to white.

Ceiling fan wiring - Ceiling Fans N More (http://www.ceiling-fans-n-more.com/ceiling-fan-wiring.php)

Leave the 3 blacks capped together alone. Leave all the whites capped together alone, just make sure the white pigtail going to the fan is still connected.

DISCONNECT your wall dimmer and install a regular wall switch. Do not use the fan until you have done this. It is possible if you tried the fan wired to the remote and the dimmer, you might have fried the remote.

I did find out that the dimm,er should not be used with the remote, and I have tried to use it. Not sure if fried means the sending circuitry in the remote or the remote entirely since I still see the lights come on the remote when I press a button - I have the wall dimmer to OFF. I'll get the normal switch back in there.

I was confused about the whites, I thought the remote AC IN white goes to the pigtails coming from house power are to be connected, yet I think you said to cap them all alone like the blacks. That I think is the only unsure item I have. Will try without remote first.

This fan has been fun since it is up on an old plaster ceiling and it took many times to even set it up right. They had an old brace sandwiched in so with all this, it has been hard to go into the canopy so many times.

And I thank you for your help. I'd like to map out all the circuits in this house to see if they took any shortcuts against code and logic. That is what makes me unsure to rewire, but I am getting the basics down with RED/switched circuits.

Alan




Ok. Here is how it would be hooked:

Red from ceiling to remote black. White from ceiling to remote white. The other side of the remote should have three wires that hook to the fan.

You can try testing it without the remote to make sure everything works. You would hook the black AND the black/striped wire from the fan to the red, and the white from the fan to white.

Ceiling fan wiring - Ceiling Fans N More (http://www.ceiling-fans-n-more.com/ceiling-fan-wiring.php)

Leave the 3 blacks capped together alone. Leave all the whites capped together alone, just make sure the white pigtail going to the fan is still connected.

DISCONNECT your wall dimmer and install a regular wall switch. Do not use the fan until you have done this. It is possible if you tried the fan wired to the remote and the dimmer, you might have fried the remote.

All the whites get connected together INCLUDING the white that pigtails to the receiver. I'm talking about this one: "leading to the white on the light" So, technically, all the whites connect together AND connect to the receiver.

It would be the receiver that is fried, not the remote itself, so the LED would still light up. With the dimmer off nothing will work. You will have to remove it and bypass or replace it (with a standard switch) before you can do anything.

UNLESS you want to wire the fan motor and light separately, without the remote. THEN you would connect the fan black to all the capped blacks, the fan striped to the red, the fan white to all the whites, and could leave the dimmer in place.