I have a ceiling fan with a very high box that I can’t easily access. It has an existing RF receiver in the lighting module where the Inovelli canopy module would fit perfectly.
The only issue is there are 4 wires going directly to the fan motor (the current control module has the hot/neutral coming from the box, hot and neutral going to the lights, then 4 wires going to the motor). From doing some googling it seems like one pair might be for forward and the other for reverse. I was thinking I could use an amp clamp to figure out which pair is for what direction, then wire one into the fan control on the canopy module and the other into neutral. Presumably I could climb a ladder once a season to flip the direction manually by switching to the other wire pair.
Before I start messing with it, I was wondering if anyone has run into this before and confirm if what I’m suggesting would work. Thanks!
I ended up getting on the ladder with my amp clamp to try and figure it out. It was a bit sketchy but looks like the different wires are for speed control, not direction as I hoped. At low speed only one pair of wires had current, but the same pair had current when reversed. At high speed all 4 wires had current.
Presumably this means the fan is DC, so I’m just going to get a new fan and not mess with it
