Thank you so much for offering help. I’m tardy getting back to you because I was trying to find something to be responsive. Unfortunately, all I’ve got is what I see and can remember.
It is Hampton Bay (I presume that is a Home Depot in-house product). The remote and electronics are gone. But, it was wired with just a single hot & neutral. (The house had an unused switched circuit for the light, so I ran that down the rod when I tried to strip out the control logic.) Although the one used hot wire was switched, the previous owners seem to have only used the remote because the wall switch was taped in the ON position.
The in-fan control logic used a square 9-pin M-F connector. All that, I ripped out and discarded after I bypassed it.
I know I’m not giving you much to go on, but I’d be grateful for any tips on how to speed it up. I estimate it goes at about 80-100 RPM’s now - hardly any air movement.
How do you bypass a 9 pin connector? Obviously I don’t know most of the fan and their wiring but I don’t remember any 9 pin wiring. I see max 8 pins being use for the controller and power. The previous owner tapped the switch to on is because that switch supply the main power to the fan and controller. Any chance you can get the fan model?
I’ll try harder to find an actual model number; in the meantime…
My recollection of the 9-pin connector was that it was a 3×3 plastic push-lock connector with perhaps 5 or 6 actual wires in use. I can’t be more specific, but the output went to the light and the fan motor. I bypassed it by running the two switched hot feeds, one for the motor and one for the light, directly to the motor and light, respectively.
I acknowledge that much of what I’m saying doesn’t make sense, but I just can’t recapture the picture in my head of how it was all configured at the start.
Sorry for asking more question than answer but we still need to know what kind of wiring motor you have. If it’s a split capacitor motor then you will need the controller to be able to control the fan. Also if it’s a reversible fan then that’s also more complicated. You can rig it with capacitors but it’s not an easy task since we don’t know the value and the color wires for the winding. I would go to homedepot and try to match the model number by looking for similar look.