That's Great it worked, the only thing I didn't figure was reversing, I thought for sure they used a relay that swapped 2 pairs of wires?

@badbill thanks for the information. I'm working on replicating your bypass. I was able to identify the wirings as you've specified including connection of capacitor (cap). I'm ready to cut up the receiver to take out the cap as well as reuse the plug for easy connection of jumpers. A couple of things I'm still not sure sure - my ceiling fan has a light fixture, how would the wiring be to power it and how would that work with "hardwires hi speed & downflow" you've indicated using a Lutron 3 speed fan Toggler?
I know you mentioned "speeds controlled thru 3pos sw + dimmer control (Lutron)" but not sure what I'm missing.

Appreciate you sharing your expetise with us wannabes weekend warriors.

WannabeJack

After much preparation and push from my wife, I finally put this bypass together. I reused the quick release connectors so all my wirings are on the plug from the receiver. I had to solder the 5u capacitor to dedicated wires on each end so I just needed to wire cap the connection. These gives me the flexibility for easy rewire should I need to reconfigure. Turned on the switch (no lutron for now, want to make sure it works first before introducing another variable) and the fan starts to move and move it did... one thing I noticed is that the air is flowing upward and the speed is on medium... how could that be? I thought I was wiring it up for high/down flow. Something is a miss. I did check the direction by badbill but still the same. For now I've left it like that and will play with it next weekend. At least for now it's working and last night was a bliss to sleep without the noise from our upright fan.

Usually the way I see reversing on Most fans, is a polarity switch(Swaps 2 wires). Just need to find the correct 2, I believe it is one of 2 coils on the fan motor.
With the wires Isolated, you could look for resistance on the motor wiring.

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Originally Posted by jeepguy_1980 on Jul 12, 2007, 01:59 AM,
"Hunter Ceiling Fan Reciever 8 wire":
So I wired the Pink and Gray both to the fan hot from the wall and the Red and Yellow to the fan neutral from the wall. However, I only measured 72 RPMs with this configuration. The rated RPM is 200.

The above instructions (from another post on this website) are pretty much what badbill has already said. And my Hunter fan is now working without the receiver. I believe badbill's convention is correct about the pink/yellow for direction.
I ended up with only 68 RPM, but I could live with that. I didn't use any capacitors.