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    Apr 25, 2008, 03:26 PM
    Wiring an add on remote control for a ceiling fan
    I am pretty handy (for a girl) and consider myself pretty fan hanging savvy. That said here is the problem. I am attempting to hang a ceiling fan and also install a remote control that was bought separately.
    I have 2 switches on the wall, one turns the fan on and off, one controls/dims the lights in the fan. In the ceiling there are 4 wires coming out. The black, White, Blue (lights) and ground. (Same as the fan so works out OK without the added remote.) The remote is as such. On one side there are 3 wires, one white/black/blue, easy enough I have those wired to the fan. It is the other side of the remote that wires to the junction box that I am confused about. There are only 2 wires on the other side of the remote. One black, one white. I get that they attach to the black and white coming out of the junction box and that the green is the ground but what the heck do I do with the blue coming out of the junction box? I tried just capping it off but the fan is not working properly. Just for fyi, the fan is a "Hunter" brand.

    Any help is much appreciated!
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    Apr 25, 2008, 03:50 PM
    Sounds all good, You should be able to cap one wire off/eleminating 1 switch, And connect wire to be used to Black in on receiver, unused wire will be capped off at ceiling also.
    The transmitter is where 2 common types are used. Black and a White wire or Black and black(and some others)
    The ones with the Black and White connects to constant power(hot and neutral), and the wire feeding the fan will also have constant from where it used to be switched.
    The ones without the white, connects like old switch connections.
    Good Luck
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    Apr 25, 2008, 04:19 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Stratmando
    Sounds all good, You should be able to cap one wire off/eleminating 1 switch, And connect wire to be used to Black in on receiver, unused wire will be capped off at ceiling also.
    The transmitter is where 2 common types are used. Black and a White wire or Black and black(and some others)
    The ones with the Black and White connects to constant power(hot and neutral), and the wire feeding the fan will also have constant from where it used to be switched.
    The ones without the white, connects like old switch connections.
    Good Luck

    I did that but it is not working properly, sometimes the fan will come on but the lights will not, there is no rhyme or reason to the how it works and I did make sure the fan was on high and lights turned on, it seems to be the switches on the wall that are causing the problem, that and the remote. Is there anything else you would do with the blue wire coming out of the junction box as in wire it with the black or white?
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    Apr 25, 2008, 04:33 PM
    You just cap off the blue wire.

    What type of wall switches are you using?
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    Apr 25, 2008, 10:53 PM
    I have lost my ceiling Fan Remote Control. Now I would like to replace the connections with a 3-Speed Ceiling Fan Switch. What do I do??


    Thanks for any Possible Answers!!

    Bob Wood [email protected]
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    Apr 25, 2008, 11:19 PM
    What make/model fan do you have? Does it have pullchains?
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    Apr 26, 2008, 05:00 AM
    Being on a different speed should not of hurt anything, the reason you want the Fan on High is to allow full speed control, and not lug the motor. Most any Fan control will work, Can be Varible, not just 3 speed. I'm sure the Codes match on transmitter and receiver.

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