OK so I put up a ceiling fan in our bedroom and I bought this fan remote.



Wiring seemed straight forward. There was a black, white, and blue wire coming from sending unit which attached to the fan wiring. The blue wire is for the light.

Problem is the remote doesn't operate the light and the light won't work if I pull the pull chain either. If I disconnect the wire coming from the light from the blue wire and connect it with the other black wire the light lights, but if I press the speed control on the remote, the light dims (the speed control is basically a dimmer control on the remote).

The fan works great, just can't get the light to come on.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Nobody?

 

Do you only have one pair of black/white wires going into the electrical box (from either a wall switch or your breaker box), or are there others?

Also was the fan existing or are you replacing a light fixture with it? If the fan was existing, how did you control the light/fan before?

 

1 pair of black/white tapped into an attic light fixture.

This is a new fan. We didn't have any ceiling lights or fans in our bedroom. Since there was no switched outlet that was easy to tap into, I figured it was easy enough to just use the remote to control everything.

 

I would wire up a light to the remote and see if it can control that. If it still doesn't work, its obviously the remote.

Sounds like the remote is bad though.

 

Yeah I have another remote module for another fan but it was a bitch to install this thing. There is no room in the canopy to hide the sending unit. So to swap it out I have to:

1) Remove fan from ceiling mounting bracket
2) Disconnect wires
3) Remove ceiling mounting plate
4) Remove electrical box
5) Wire in new sending unit
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Guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

 

That sucks. When I worked at a lighting store we sold Casablanca and the module was on the bottom of the fan or in the wall.

 

Bad sending unit. Off to Home Depot for another one.

 

How much was the remote?

 

And I just wanted to add that I think that is the most complicated ceiling fan control I have ever seen. Mine just had 3 buttons for fan speed and a button for the light on/off/dimmer. Never seen one with a timer and an LCD display.

 

Its hardly the most complicated. There are dimmers out there with multiple timers with a ton of different settings that will control multiple fans seperately in the same house.

 

I think it was ~ $35.

Best feature is the temperature sensitive speed control.

If you set it to 75 degrees and the air temp rises above it, it turns on the fan. If it drops below it slows it down.

It's a cool feature (no pun intended) when you are not at home so the fan doesn't run all day long when it doesn't need to.

 

Sweet. I'm going to look into it.

 

I had two hampton bay remote controlled fans and I found out one thing, THEIR REMOTE MODULES SUCK! Both of them eventually went out and I had to replace them. A real pain in the arse when you have to take the whole assembly down and reinstall it. I instead, went with hunter remote modules and they work excellent. The one in my bedroom came with a universial remote control, so I can control my TV, DVD, ceiling fan, and light with the same remote!