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Posted by RBM on June 18, 2006, 1:24 pm
Your most practical solution is probably to buy a retrofit
transmitter-receiver set up. Keep in mind what John said about shoe horning
the things into the canopy. They are often a wicked tight fit
>
>>Thank you all for comments.
>>
>>It sounds like I have a few options.
>>
>>1. Get a remote control for my current fan.
>>2. Buy a new fan and a corresponding wall controller that uses a
>>2-wire, i.e. black (hot), white (neutral), ground.
>>3. Rewire the wall to fixture with a 3-wire, i.e. black (hot), red
>>(hot), white (neutral), ground.
>>
>>Some follow up questions:
>>1. How difficult is it to rewire the wall box to ceiling fixture
>>connection? Since I have not done it before my first thought is to buy
>>a 3-wire attach it VERY securely to one end of the currently installed
>>wire and pull on the other end :) Is this a very insane idea? For
>>example if the two wires get stuck somewhere in the wall I will have a
>>major problem.
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> Use regular romax and run it along side the exisiting wire. This
> should not be too difficult if you have attic access and the walls do
> not contain insulation. If necessary you can use a stiff wire or a
> fish tape. Both wires inside the romax are "hot" and are wired
> though the wall switch. Use a magic marker and color the white wire
> black in both the ceiling and wall boxes. Do not bother the existing
> wiring. It is probably (should be) stapled secure to the 2x4s anyway.
>
>>
>>2. Just out of curiosity. Can I use the black(hot) and white(neutral)
>>wires as both hot and use the ground as a neutral (return)? This way I
>>guess I could have a "poor man's" 3-wire connection to my fan fixture.
>>Again, it seems that it should work, but I guess it could be dangerous.
>> Any thoughts?
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> The (bare) ground should never be used as the neutral. The ground
> wire inside romax should only be used for grounding purposes. As I
> stated above, you can use a white wire as a hot wire if it is colored
> black or taped. Some electricians don't even mark a white wire as
> hot, and that doesn't follow the NEC.
>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Tom
>>
>>
>>Tom wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I would like to install a ceiling fan control switch that uses two
>>> separate switches for control of fan speed and light kit.
>>> The current installation has the fan and light kit on a single on/off
>>> wall switch and uses manual chain controls.
>>> The wall box has 3 wires: black (hot), neutral and a ground (a bare
>>> copper wire).
>>>
>>> In the instructions for the new wall switch it appears that an
>>> additional (hot) wire is required for the separate control of the fan
>>> and light.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to perform the install using current 3-wire (black,
>>> white, ground) installation?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you All,
>>> -Tom
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