You have remotes for everything--TVs, radios, alarm clocks; now you can even have a remote for your ceiling fans. Why would you want to get out of bed to turn off the light or change the fan speed when you can push a button instead? You can install a remote control on your ceiling fan and stay in bed, but you will have to follow a few instructions first.
Instructions
1. Turn off the electrical power to the ceiling fan. You need to turn off the breaker at the circuit panel that operates the fan. Leave the fan running and turn off each breaker until the fan no longer runs, if you are not aware which breaker supplies power to your fan.
2. Disconnect the fan from the ceiling fan mounting bracket. Whether you have a hanging fan or a hugger fan, you will need to remove the canopy that covers the mounting bracket in order to have access to the electrical wiring.
3. Disconnect the ceiling fan from the power supply. Remove the wire nut that holds the two white wires together. Remove the wire nut from the black wires. If you have a light kit, there will be an additional wire connected with the black power supply wire. The light kit wire will either be black with a white stripe, blue or black with tape identifying it as the wire for the light kit. Move the fan to a stable location.
4. Connect the ceiling fan remote control receiver to the power supply. The remote receiver will be wired between the power supply and the ceiling fan. The receiver has three wires for the fan side and two wires for the side. Working with the side of the receiver that only has a black and a white wire, you will connect the two black wires together with an orange wire nut and do the same with the two white wires.
5. Connect the receiver to the ceiling fan. You will have three wires on the fan side of the remote receiver: black, white and a wire that is identified as the light kit wire. Connect the black wire from the receiver to the black wire from the ceiling fan with an orange wire nut and do the same for the light kit wire as well as the white wire. Should you not have a light kit on your ceiling fan, tape off the light kit wire from the receiver with a piece of electrical tape.
6. Attach the ceiling fan to the hanging bracket. You will need to gently push all wires into the canopy as well as the remote receiver before you screw the canopy back to the hanger bracket.
7. Turn the breaker back on to supply power to the ceiling fan.
Tags: power supply, light wire, wire from, remote receiver, white wire, your ceiling, black white