Hunter 21627 receiver replacement I bought a universal replacement for my fan but the colors on the wires do not match I have looked all over for the color code or wiring diagram. I need to know what each color is for on the fan there's a tan a black with a white line a pink an orange going to the remote receiver and also the power wiring which is standard
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Here is a link to a common Hunter fan installation, with remote.
http://www.cpohunterfan.com/documents/manuals/hunter/h27185.pdf
But I can't quite tell what you mean?
Are you telling us the original fan was a Hunter 21627, and that you bought a replacement that was universal and not a Hunter?
Or are you saying you bought the Hunter 21627 as the replacement?
Almost always the wires come tagged so that you can tell what each is for.
And you can also tell to a large degree from the old wiring.
Basically the receiver for the remote needs power and ground in order to work, which should be black and white. So before doing anything with the actual fan itself, get a test cord and wire up the remote to a wall plug, for testing. If nothing else, you don't want to be taking the fan up and down, only to later discover the receiver or transmitter does not work. Plus you may want to change the signal channel, if it collides with one already installed. I have forgotten to alter the channel dip switches in the past, only to find that the remote turned off and on all the fans in the entire house.
What then can be different colors are the wires coming out of the receiver, to go to the lights and fan speeds. If there are 3 speeds, then with the lights that would be 4 power output wires of arbitrary color. But the colors do not matter. You can tell which is which simply by activating the control and using a test light or inductive senor on the output leads of the receiver. Once you have identified all the outputs, then write them on tape attached to each lead. You will need that information again some time in the future.
If the old fan wiring is the problem understanding, it would help to know what the old fan make and model is, but not necessary.
The same system I described will work for the fan as well.
Take it down and take the blades off so that you can more safely experiment on it.
Don't even bother with the remote receiver at first.
First just connect the common ground of the fan to the incoming white wire.
(you can just use a test wire, like an extension cord cut off and has bare wires )
If you can't tell which is the fan common ground based on color, you could tell with an ohmmeter, because there would be some current flow between it and any of the other fan wires, such as each of the 3 speed wires and the light wire.
Once you have the ground connected, you can then just touch the power lead to each of the other fan wires, one at a time, and see what gets turned on. There will be fan speeds and lights.
Label with tape, once you know what each does.
(I have also been ignoring the green safety external ground, since that is usually uninsulated or otherwise obvious.)
If you are worried about using live wires, then you could unplug, connect the wires, and then plug in, one at a time. You can also increase safety by wearing gloves, and hand the fan from a ladder with a coat hanger, so that it won't hit the floor or anything else when the motor spins.
The only wires you need to figure out are the 3 (or less) motor speeds, the lights, and the common ground. You could figure out the lights by tracing them up to the light socket. The motor speeds are not that critical. The common ground is easy to figure out because of the fact it is common to all the speeds and the light.
Usually when colors dont match the best thing to do is to refer back to the universal electrical color coding. Normally electrical appliances come with three cables for power. They are usually red, black and yellow. The red stands for live although some appliances come with a brown replacement for this and at other times a combination of colors but usually the contain either brown or red.
The black cable on the other hand is sometimes replaced by a blue or green cable and when it is mixed with other colors it usually contains one of the other three colors(black, blue or green) this cable represents the neutral cable.
Finally the last one is the earth cable and come in a variety of shades. Once the first two cables have been located the last is always the earth cable.
Hope this solution has been helpful?
What are the colors you have there so i can instruct you on which wire connects to which?
still a bit confused what are the colors on the receiver? and i counted 6 wires from the fan? is this correct?