From: trader4@optonline.net
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Wiring a ceiling fan with light
Date: 15 Jun 2006 11:10:49 -0700
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uscanuck@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank-you for your advice. I follow what you are saying but I may have
> not made myself clear. There is also a red wire coming out of the box.
> I have a black, white and red wire, as well as the bare wire, in the
> ceiling box.
>
> I've tried many combinations, but I am finding that the switch to the
> light in the closet is always turning the fan and it's respective light
> on. This is not the switch that I want controlling the fan. I cannot
> seem to find the correct wiring combination where one switch operates
> the closet light and one switch operates the fan and it's respective
> light. I'm constantly finding that the switch to the closet light is
> operating both the light in the closet as well as the fan and it's
> light. Am I missing something here? One more thing, the fan has no pull
> chains, it has a remote receiver which is to be installed in the
> ceiling fan canopy.
>


It's still not clear where you started, what you've done, or how things
were originally wired.   You say you have a black and a red in the fan
box.    Was there a light there before that was controlled by the
switch?   If so, what wires were connected when u took it apart?  If it
was just a light, then you have an extra wire.  Was it connected to
anything?  If there was only a light there, one wire should trace back
to the switch for that light.  The other probably was an extra to
support a fan/light combo and may have been unused, but we can't tell,
cause we didn't take it apart.

Did you do anything to the wiring at the switch end?  It sounds like
you did, because otherwise it's hard to see how the closet switch is
now controlling the closet light plus the fan.

Forget about the fan for the time being.    You need to use a tester
and find out which switch works the black and/or red wires in the fan
box.