I am wiring a light remote control, light has 2 wires (black and white), remote has 3 wires (black, white, and blue) not sure how to hook up the blue wire

An educated guess- white to white, black to the feed (wire bringing to power to the light) , blue to the light. Didn't this come with instructions? If not how about the manufacturer's website?

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Originally Posted by hermanwachs

An educated guess- white to white, black to the feed (wire bringing to power to the light) , blue to the light. Didn't this come with instructions? If not how about the manufacturer's website?

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OK, here is the problem. I have a light in my dining room ceiling which does not have a wall switch. It is a chandelier type light, not a ceiling fan. I did not want to tear up my wall to run wiring to it, so I thought I might install a remote to turn it on and off (the light has a switch on it, and I knew I would just have to leave that in the on position)The only remotes I was able to find are ceiling fan/light remotes, but I thought I might be able to hook up just the light portion of it, but I can't figure out how to make it work. Is there some other kind of remote for just a light, since the ceiling fan/light remote does not seem to want to work for just a light

" remote has 3 wires (black, white, and blue)" if this is the receiver end of a transmiter and receiver package it sounds like a ceiling fan remote with a light kit, where did you get the remote from?

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Originally Posted by ballengerb1

" remote has 3 wires (black, white, and blue)" if this is the receiver end of a transmiter and receiver package it sounds like a ceiling fan remote with a light kit, where did you get the remote from?

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I got the remote kit (a harbor light fan/light remote control)from Lowe's but I believe I may have found the answer (not sure). I unwired the remote and was putting it back in the package when I noticed that the battery for the transmitter was very discretely shrink-wrapped in plastic. That probably explains why I could not get it to work, although I won't know until I rewire it tomorrow and see. I hooked the white on the transmitter to the white for the light, and the blue ( light wire) on the transmitter to the black wire on the light and capped off the black (fan motor wire) on the transmitter with a wire nut but was unable to get the remote to turn on the light, probably because the supplied battery was encased in plastic which I did not notice. I would prefer a remote for just a light, but could only find fan/light remotes at Lowe's.

Good luck on this. I stopped installing these remote fans years ago because I can't afford to spend hours trouble shooting defective garbage. Notice how many questions on this site are ceiling fan related?

Before we go too far we got to start using the correct terms. The thing in your hand with the buttons is the transmiter, the small black box that goes in the canopy is the receiver. The receiver should only have an incoming hot/blck and white/neutrtal, maybe a green or bare ground to. This fan remote should function with your chandelier but you will need to put a wire nut on the black or the blue coming off the receiver depending on which button you want for the light. Black normal is controlled by the fan botton and blue is controlled by the light button, your choice but definitely cap the one not used.

White - white, black - blue, cap off the receiver's black.

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