[crockette]

I just purchased a harbor breeze (garrison) fan w/light kit, the installation of the fan and light kit was fairly straight forward. This fan comes with a hand held remote, however, I am trying to install a harbor breeze wall remote control unit.

On the remote wall unit there are two black wires and a ground. From the house supply I am using the wiring that existed from a two way switch, that controlled a dining room light. The box contains a red wire that appears to be (hot) a black wire (also appears to be hot) and a white wire.

So I don't short out a $40 wall remote can you assist me in the proper way to wire the wall remote?

Thanks
crockette

[MOWERMAN2468]

First off did you connect the fan and light fixture at the ceiling?

If you just used a black wire and a white wire, then the ground you are o.k.
Just hook the hot lead in wire to the bottom of the remote. The "line" connection, then hook the other black wire that goes up the wall to the top "load" connection, hook the white to the silver screw,"neutral" connection. And at the ceiling take the red wire and dead it off. You could just place a wire nut and electrical tap on the end of it at the ceiling. And you are correct the red wire is the "carrier" wire that makes the two light switches be able to operate independently and operate one fixture from different locations.

[donf]

Okay. In the ceiling junction box, do you see a Black/Red/White and Ground wires?

Do you own a volt meter? If you do, connect the Black Lead from the meter to the black lead in the ceiling and the red lead to the ground wire. Do you get as voltage reading? Next test the Read lead by placing the blk probe from the meter onto the red lead. Do you see voltage. If yes to both then both wall switches in the rtoom are somewhat married by the Red or "Traveler Wire"

Next, you need to find out which wire on the remote is for is used to take the overhead supply line down to the remote. Once you determine that, connect the black in the ceiling to the black on the switch. Now you have to determine if the 2nd. Black wire on the remote is used to power the fan. If it responsible for providing power to the fan and light package, then the in ceiling is connected to the first wire. The white in the ceiling should be connected to the Black & white in the ceiling by pigtailing them to the White from the switch. Put a small amount of black tape on the white wire to signify it's change to a load bearing wire. Pigtail the White from the Source power to the white from the fan. I would just cap off the red line until I see if I need it. If for nothing else, you could use it to power the light package.

If for some reason sparks start flying. Kill the power at the breaker and get a couple of digital picctures of 1) Ceiling junction box wiring. 2) Wall junction box wiring. 3) Fan wiring 4) Remote switch wiring. Also, please scan in the wiring diagrams or send me the exact model number of the fan so I can check the online references.

[ceilingfanrepair]

A couple questions:

1. Did the fan come with a separate receiver to wire in at the ceiling? Does it have two wires at the ceiling or three? Does it have pullchains?

2. Your previous wall dimmer, how was it wired?