Standard fan remote

This little remote is super easy to wire up. There is a black and a white wire coming from one end of the receiver to connect to the ceiling's wires, (and in this old house we only have two wires coming from the ceiling). Then the other end of the receiver has the wires that connect to the ceiling fan and they are color coded to match perfectly, so no thinking or guessing is involved. The only thing is, the receiver does not fit between the bracket attached to the ceiling, and the other bracket that holds the ceiling fan, but it's easy to secure it by threading a long plastic tie through there and snugging it up against the brackets... then the motor housing easily slides over all, making it a good fit. Just leave the yellow antenna wire peeking out the top of the housing. One thing to remember.... the pull chains for the light must be pulled to the on position, and the fan pull chain must be pulled three times to put it in the fastest position, in order for the remote to control them. I forgot about the fan's pull chain and nearly took the entire thing apart thinking the wiring somewhere must have come loose when I shoved it all up in the brackets, as the remote would only control the light, not the fan.... NOPE... just forgot to pull the chain for the fan! And make sure your wall switch is turned on - And you cannot use a dimmer wall switch with some fans. Like the model I got. A dimmer switch will make the fan hum loudly. I had to install a regular light switch and then it worked perfectly and is completely silent. And on that note, this remote does not include a dimmer feature. The light is either on or off. That's fine with me because if I want low light I don't use the ceiling light anyway.

So the house we bought has a very nice ceiling fan light combo. But there was no way to turn on the fan, just the light. Opened up the cowl at the top to see if there was an existing control but no. So this looked like it would work and was less expensive than a brand new remote control ceiling fan (although I really liked the tropical palm fans). Another discovery I made was the ceiling fan had two levels of bulbs including 4 hidden above the fan. Those never turned on. So installed the control. Hot and neutral on the input. Output has separate wires for fan and lights and neutral and an antenna to receive the RF control signal. So the color of the wires on the ceiling fan actually matched the color code on the control box. How rare is that? But there was a yellow wire from the fan left over which I traced to the top hidden bulbs with an ohmmeter. OK so connected the two sets of lights together and powered it up. All ok. Lights turn on right away when you turn on the wall switch. Think of that as your master control. You leave the room and you can turn off the lights and fan both. The control remote has separate buttons for the light (not dimmable) and the fan (3 speeds). It also has a timer you can set for 1 to 8 hours but I'm not sure how you would use that function. I only want to have light and be cool for X hours then darkness and no fan? IDK. The antenna needs to stick out beyond the metal cowl or it wont receive the signal from the RF remote. I didn.t like the yellow color against the ceiling so I trimmed it and added about 8 inches to match the color of the ceiling. Now its unnoticeable. They were smart and capped off the antenna with a little blob of plastic so you dont try to hook it up to an AC line (very tempting as I had an extra yellow wire and the antenna was yellow but I resisted that temptation. All works, I have LED bulbs on the way to replace the 240 watts of incandescent bulbs it had and its happy camper time.

I had purchased fan controllers by a different manufacturer that repeatedly failed on me (sensitive to power outages). I purchased this remote to replace those by the other manufacturer. This remote has a controller box that is much smaller in size, and therefore much, much easier to install than those that have been the industry standard (& much bigger) for years. Much easier to get all the wires tucked in, in a shallow J-Box. Note that the manual states that one must leave the antenna wire exposed. I did not do this, but kept it in the canopy (bottom of the canopy), and it works just fine. Note that one can turn the beep off (tells how in the instruction manual). Note that the two Neutral wires on the controller must be tied together to the line neutral, but come out of opposite ends of the controller. The controller wires are only 3-1/2" long, and so it is problematic to get both wires to the line neutral. The neutral on the fan controller end should be made 10" long to facilitate wiring. I had to add a length of wire to the one neutral to be able to install the controller. I am using the controller for fan only, and it works just fine. Hopefully this device is more rugged (able to handle power outages) than the other manufacturer's devices that I bought previously. Time will tell. I will post if any problems are experienced.

Había comprado otro mas barato que no me funciono. Pero este es buen producto. Funcionó a la primera. Manual adecuado y llega con todo lo descrito. El control ya está enlazado al receptor solo conectar el receptor, baterías al control y listo. El cable de alimentación es el que da energía a la luz.

Installed 3 of these into my condos fans in Costa Rica. They work perfectly and make a huge difference. Before installing these my fans only had one speed, fast. It felt like the condo was going to take off. Now we have 3 speeds but medium speed is perfect. They were easy to install but for my fans which are down-rod style the canopy that butts up against the ceiling are smallish and an upside down bell shape so the black receiver needed to be a bit smaller. It means my canopies no longer butt completely up to the ceiling at one side. This didn’t bother me as I butted it up against the ceiling where you would see it as you came into the room and the small gap is where you would really have to look to see it. All in all I was very happy with this purchase. The remotes in their holders screwed to the walls look handsome too.

We’ve gone through 2 of the manufacturer’s remotes for our ceiling fan. One that came with the unit (and died within a month) and another that we bought separately that died after a year. It just kept shutting off or turning on on it’s own. Eventually it would only stay on low. But this remote works perfectly. It was easy to install but just a pain because we have to bring in the big ladder (11’ ceiling). So relieved it worked. Hope it keeps on for a long time. Good product and recommended.

Súper bien su funcionamiento con abanico Hampton bay y a un excelente precio. Actualizo referencia. Dejó de funcionar en noviembre, iba muy bien, pero algo falló no se si fue el control o algún sensor que va en el abanico. Pero por el precio tal vez pida otro o uno similar, los originales de la marca salen carísimos.

Excelente opción funciona todo bien ya instalado