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Default Pull Chain for Ceiling Fan Light Doesn't Work

On Dec 21, 5:21*pm, Ben22 wrote:
I little prologue: *I bought a house with a remote controlled ceiling
fan (with 4 bulb light) in the living room. *Problem is the lights
flicker. *I think it's the remote control unit, so I took that part
out.

Okay, to the problem: *There is a black, blue, white, and green wire
from the fan. *I connected the black and blue to the black out of the
ceiling; the white to white; and the green to the ground. *Fan comes
on and the chain operates its low-medium-high-off modes. *Great! *The
lights also come on but......the chain does not turn them off. *I
bought a new chain switch and connected the wires coming out of it to
the respective blue and white wire groups for each bulb with the
little screw cap. *Then each of those groups has a blue or white wire
that leaves those caps and travels up to connect to the fan part.

So I'm not sure why the fan chain works but not the light chain. *Help?


Time to call an electrician. Sounds like you've tied the switch
directly across 120 v. The new switch is probably toast.