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1 wall switch controls power to the ceiling fan/light kit
Fan/Lights are on separate pull cords
Fan has power, pull cord is working
Light kit has power/pull cord was broken
Replaced on/off pull cord for light kit no workie
Hard wired light kit black to black (bypassed switch) no workie
Should I just say screw it and buy a new ceiling fan?
Didja change the light bulb?
All three of them.
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And I checked power to the lamps with it hard wired and after replacing the switch.
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Check the connections between the fan and the light kit.
The builder installed fans in my house have separate switches for the fan and the light. Did your fan work before the switch was replaced? Most fans will work on one power source (single switch) but the wires for the fan and the light must be connected to the same switch. If I recall the light power wire would be blue and must be connected to the black wire in order to transfer power through to the light kit for the pull chain to work the light. Without the blue light wire connected to power the fan power would be the only thing that would work. I only pretend to know this from having swapped out fans from time to time.
Wall switch isn't a dimmer is it? Our living room fan works fine, but the lights don't. Dimmer switch at the wall that feeds it is all I can figure. We never need/use the lights anyway, and the switch is behind a BMF entertainment center, so changing the switch isn't a priority.
Is it one of the new fancy ones with a remote? Marlin argued with my fan when he put it in. Cursed me for buying a fancy one too.
Did the lights have power when you checked? What kind of bulbs did you put it? Mine has a setting for cfl and then regular lights. Something to do with voltage going to them
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Did you check the connection of the neutral (white), a lot of times the hot wire (black) will read hot but not have power because the neutral is no good. You can always try hooking up the neutral to ground to see if the neutral wire is bad.
From what I am understanding, is after replacing the light pull cord switch, the fan still works but the lights with the new pull cord switch does not work.
Check power before fore the pull switch and after the pull switch with a meter, if there is power to ground,You may have knocked a loose noddle to the lights off, if there is no power to ground, Recheck all wiring connections including above the fan in the ceiling box.
Be sure to turn off the circuit breaker first !
Then in drop the fan unit & check / remake all connections, reinstall the fan and light kit remaking all connections as you go.
Turn the breaker back on and check operation.
My favorite thing in the house we just bought was that the hallway ceiling fan upstairs has a remote we didn't know about at first. It has a main power switch in the hallway, pull chains for both fan and lights, and the remote to control them. Apparently when the previous owners vacated they left the fan on and the lights off by the remote and this feature overrides the pull chains. So even when we pulled the chains the lights wouldn't turn on. We finally found the remote in a cabinet in the garage when I was putting some tools away and I noticed the remote had the same name as the fan.
Usually its the pull chain switch in the light kit. Pm me if you want a hand but its two wires
Reading & comprehension,Quote:
Originally Posted by Wulf202
OP stated that he replaced the pull chain switch...........
There's power to the light kitQuote:
Originally Posted by newracer
It's an on/off switch, no dimmer.Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
No remote, the lights don't get power.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monky
I haven't done this but it seems to be beyond what I'm comfortable with.Quote:
Originally Posted by smchop
Yeah, I replaced the pull chain in the light kit with no change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wulf202
If I'm going to through the trouble of pulling the fan out to check the wiring in the ceiling then I'm just going to replace the whole thing.
Fixed it. One of the socket hot wires had come loose from the crimp when I pulled the wiring loose to replace the switch. I got that wired back in the with the other two power wires and the switch and we're back in business.
Dang...just what I was going to mention was most likely wrong with it! J/k
good job getting it fixed. When I get home I'm hoping my dishwasher is that simple, no power at all to the panel this morning.