O/T Wiring a fan and light on a two way switch

The light wires will be separate from the fan, they pull up thru the hollow center of the fan shaft and arrive at the top of the motor, along with the wires from the fan motor.

As someone has noted, some of the more expensive fans will have remote control receivers wired into them and you cannot do this with those type of fans. On these you provide one electric circuit (hot/netural/grd) to the fan and the remote does the rest.

Use the largest fan approved mounting box you can find, as you will have many wires in it and you need the cu. in. capacity to handle them under the code, in addition to needing room to work in the box.

Charles

Now, if you"re thinking about getting inside of the unit and seperating the leads from the light and fan, I suppose it can be done, but would have to look inside at it, wouldn"t even guess at how they have it set up (wires spliced/beenied together? Wires screwed or mounted to a common buss? Soldered?). If you end up with a unit that has both a fan and a light that operate seperately/independently of each other, then you will have to run a seperate ??/3 (12/3 in your case) to the switches and fan, for the fan, and a seperate ??/3 to the switches and light, for the light. And if that"s the case, go with a deep, deep 1900 or gem-box, because that"s a lot of wires and wire nuts to try and pack into one shallow box.

I assume you have units that are equipped with both a fan and a light, that you want to work independantly of each other by seperate switches. You sure that they have seperate sets of leads for fan and light? Never seen one, not saying don"t exist, or that mine aren"t cheapies. Just never seen one. Industrial? Hmm? Perhaps, I guess? Too early Todd - no shower yet.