Lighting, Light Fixtures, Ceiling and Exhaust Fans - Ceiling Fan Wiring

This is my first attempt to installing a ceiling fan. I have wiring questions. I have a brand new home with prewired ceiling fan hookups in all the rooms. I have two wall switches in the room. One for the lighting of the fan and the other for the power of the fan. The fan wires come with a blck/wht wire, a green wire, a white wire, and a black wire. The wiring coming out of my ceiling are beige, red, and black wires. The ceiling plate that came with the fan has a green wire connected to that also. I really wanted a second opinion before wiring these together. Electricity makes me nervous. Any suggestions?

I'm going to call the beige wire white.

Connect ceiling black to fan black. Connect ceiling red to fan black with a white stripe. Connect ceiling white to fan white.

You didn't mention a bare or green wire in the ceiling box. If it is true that there isn't one, then you probably live in the greater Chicago area (or one of a few other places that requires connduit). Then connect the fan green wire to the green screw on the mounting bracket.

It worked! Thank you so much.

I got the fan working thanks to you. Now I need to connect the remote that I purchased also. The remote comes with 4 wires. Red (light out), black (light out), white (common out), white (neutral in), and black (live in). You already know all the other wiring from my fan from my previous question. If you can help me with this one also, I would be done. Thank you.

Remote controls and wall switches don't get along very well. You have to make a choice. Do you want to control the fan with the wall switches, or the remotes? You can't get both very well.

If you decide that the remote will be the primary method of control, and the wall switches will be generally useless, the I can tell you how to wire it. But first, tell me the make and model of the remote.

I would really like to use the remote instead of the wall switches. The make of the remote is Hunter, model #27185. My fan is also a Hunter. Thank you.

Good. I like that control. It retains the ability to at least use the wall switch to turn on the fan's light.

This project would have been easier if you had installed the remote initially, but I guess you wanted to get some earlier successes.

You have several options. You can make one switch power the fan, and the other switch do nothing, or you can make both switches do the same thing. When I did this project in my house, I elected to make both switches do the same thing, since that way I could use either switch interchangeably.

If you want to do the same thing, then attach both the red and black wires in the ceiling to the black "live in" wire from the remote receiver. Connect the ceiling white to white "neutral in". Connect fan black to black "fan out". Connect fan black with white stripe to red "light out". Connect fan white to white "common out". Leave the grounding wires as they are now.

Normally you will leave one or both wall switches on at all times. That way you can always use the remote. If you go on vacation, turn both wall switches off so that the fan's light won't come on in the event of a power failure and restoration. If you come into a dark room, and at least one of the wall switches is already on, and you can't find the remote handy, then shut off both wall switches, wait ten seconds, and turn either wall switch on--the light will then come on. That's a handy feature of the Hunter All-Fan controls that isn't available in many other brands of control.