Electrical Question - Ceiling Fan Lights Not Working

[Dave]

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.

[Wulf202]

Usually its the pull chain switch in the light kit. Pm me if you want a hand but its two wires

[SideShow Bob]

Usually its the pull chain switch in the light kit. Pm me if you want a hand but its two wires

Reading & comprehension,
OP stated that he replaced the pull chain switch...........

[blacklabel]

Check the connections between the fan and the light kit.

There's power to the light kit

Wall switch isn't a dimmer is it?

It's an on/off switch, no dimmer.

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


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

No remote, the lights don't get power.

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.

I haven't done this but it seems to be beyond what I'm comfortable with.

Usually its the pull chain switch in the light kit. Pm me if you want a hand but its two wires

Yeah, I replaced the pull chain in the light kit with no change.

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.

[blacklabel]

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.

[sniper7]

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.