Ceiling has red, black, white, and ground wire. Remote box has black and white wires on top (to ceiling) and black, white, and blue wires on the bottom (to fan). The fan has black, white, blue, and ground wire. The blue wire is for the light. The instructions that came with the fan tell you to connect all the same color wires, but never addresses the red wire. I called the company and they said to connect the red wire to the blue wires. This works except that in order for the fan to work, the light has to be on. The remote will control the fan speeds, but will not control the light as it should.
Electrical – How should I wire a ceiling fan remote where one switch is used to control the fixture
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- Start by turning off the power at the breaker, and verifying it's off with a non-contact voltage tester.
- Connect all the bare or green grounding conductors together.
- Connect the white wire from the ceiling to the white wire on the input side of the remote receiver module and the white wire in the fan.
- Connect the black wire from the ceiling to the black wire on the input side of the remote receiver module.
- Connect the blue wire from the output side of the remote receiver module to the blue wire in the fan.
- Connect the red wire from the ceiling to the black wire in the fan.
- Cap off the black and white wire from the output side of the remote receiver module.
Now when one switch is on, the remote will control the light. The other switch will turn the fan on and off. You'll end up with something like this.
Alternatively, you could wire it like this.
This way the remote module will control the fan (when the switch is in the ON position), and the other switch will control the light.
This answer assumes the black wire controls the fan, while the blue controls the light kit on the fan. Check the documentation that came with the fixture, for proper wiring instructions.
Yes, it's definitions possible that the black with white stripe is the same as blue. Though you might find that the black is blue, and the black with white stripe is black.
In either case it won't matter, if you get it wrong you'll just have to switch them.
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Hot wires are any color but white, gray or green. Code isn't specific as to which. Since there's only 1 switch and not 2, surely the red/black are a) always-hot, and b) switched-hot. We don't know which is which - there's no standard.
Normally you shouldn't experiment, but in this case, it's alright.
Turn the breaker off. Hook up ground. Hook up neutral.
Now, the blue wire on the fan is actually for the light. Hook that to either red or black from the ceiling, and cap the other one off. See what that does. Then hook it to the other one and see what that does. Results will be:
Now, on the fan control module, there's a blue wire you won't use. Cap that off. Also cap off the control module's bottom white wire, since you can't use it.
After that it's downhill; the only thing is you'll be adding the box's top white wire to the neutrals.