hunter fan/light remote control #27185

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-13
fan remote
Product works great and I received within 2 days of my order. Will definately order again.

Rating:
Date: 2008-04-06
fan control
should not be sold with fans that come with compact flow lamps...ok for incandesent lamps only..needs to be made in usa also...i dont trust china products..

Rating:
Date: 2008-03-10
Possessed
This item is possessed. Go over to epinions and read about it. Fan comes on and off at random times, mostly inconvenient times (while your trying to sleep). Changing the frequency dip switches involves unmounting the fan (thats right, getting up on a ladder and taking it down again). I actually have installed 100 fans in my life, and holding up a fan in one hand while changing a dip switch with the other is somewhat of a challenge :). Now that the dip switches are changed, VIOLA...still interference. I think I may try to cut the receiver wire this time to shorten the range, as it may be getting interference from down the street, or solar flares, or the gremlins that live in my attic.

Rating:
Date: 2007-12-29
Easy as 1,2 -3
I was not sure if this thing would function well, but boy not only is it great having it on the wall so it doesn't get lost it works better than expected and it was "easy" to install

Rating:
Date: 2007-10-10
Unhappy with Reliability
Gripe #1: Poor Product Reliability. My first unit had been installed by the previous homeowner. Within a year of our moving in, the fan/light stopped working. I assumed it was a random failure and bought an exact replacement #27185. Using the new remote, I confirmed that it was the old receiver that had died.

After installing the new receiver (not easy on a cathedral ceiling), everything worked as before. Thankfully, I did not need to toy with the DIP switches. As an added bonus, we now had an extra remote. Nevertheless, a few months later, the new receiver stopped working too. At this point I had two working remotes, two dead receivers, and zero interest in installing another #27185. I did complain to the company, and their solution (of course) was to offer me another receiver. No thanks.

Gripe #2: Inconvenient/Archaic Design. I also experienced 'unattended' turn-ons with the #27185. The light would *always* turn on following any power interruption; this behavior was so consistent that I assumed it was a design 'feature'. I rarely had problems with RF interference. However, the mechanism provided for solving such problems (flipping DIP switches on both the transmitter and *highly-inaccessible* receiver) is archaic and extremely inconvenient. Nowadays, even the cheapest consumer products (consider a typical cordless phone or baby monitor) have provisions for selecting alternate frequencies without resorting to DIP switches.

Alternative Product: I considered buying the similarly-priced Hampton Bay remote, but poor reviews convinced me that it would probably be no better than the Hunter. I have now settled on the more expensive Lutron Maestro. If it saves me the aggravation of ever replacing another canopy module, it will have been worth it. The Maestro is not susceptible to RF interference and has no DIP switches. The IR remote (strictly line-of-sight) communicates with a sensor integrated into the wallplate. The wallplate module communicates with the control unit through the existing wiring (probably similar to X10). As with the Hunter and Hampton Bay controls, the control unit needs to be wired into the canopy enclosure. This placement seems unavoidable in two-wire installations.

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