I replaced my ceiling fan (pull chains for light and fan) to a TroposAir Starfire ceiling fan.
My house has 4 wires coming from the box, white,red,black and green. There is 2 switches on the wall that controlled the fan and light independently. Now with this new fan that goes through the remote it leaves one switch as a dummy as there is just one master switch that controls the main power and everything goes through the remote, with young children this is not ideal. How to I wire this so the light and fan have their own switch? The remote has 5 wires going in, 3 for the motor and 2 for the light.
Wiring a ceiling fan with remote (5 wires) to 2 wall switches
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If you want to use the control with the new fixture, you'll have to only use a the single "switch" to control it. This means you'll have to replace one of the switches with a blank insert, or not use the control module.
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In the switch box, wire the new switch as follows:
- Black wire #2 (the one that comes from the black group, and goes to the top of the fan switch), connects to one of the black wires of the new switch.
- Black wire #1 (the one that comes from the wall, and goes to the bottom of the fan switch), connects to the other black wire from the new switch.
- Black wire #3 is either removed, or capped off using a twist-on wire connector of appropriate size.
- Red wire #1 is capped off using a twist-on wire connector of appropriate size.
- Connect the green ground wire from the new switch in with all the other bare grounding wires.
The wiring at the new fan will be as follows:
- Connect the white wire from the ceiling, to the white wire of the fan control module.
- Connect the black wire from the ceiling, to the black wire of the fan control module.
- Connect the green/bare grounding wire from the fan, to the grounding conductor from the ceiling.
- Cap off the red wire using a twist-on wire connector of appropriate size.
- Connect the black wire from the output of the control module, to the black wire from the fan.
- Connect the blue wire from the output of the control module, to the blue wire from the fan.
- Connect the white wire from the output of the control module, to the white wire from the fan.
If the fan has a remote module, it's designed to be controlled by the remote. You can usually bypass or eliminate the remote module, but it's usually not possible to control the fan from both the switch and remote.
You'll have to look in the switch box, to determine if the red wire is actually extra.
Best Answer
The fan you purchased isn't designed to be wired with separate switches. It's designed to have an always hot hooked up to the remote unit in the fan that controls everything. If you want a fan and light to be controlled by the wall switches then you need to get a different fan without the remote unit since you can't just bypass the remove unit. There are smart devices out there that allow you to do both but you have to make sure they are compatible with your fan... and they're not cheap.