al9000
Mar 3, 2007, 07:58 PM
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.
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.