Finally going to install these FanLinc 2475F's

[raymondjiii]

These have been sitting in their boxes for a few months. Is it preferred to use a six button or 8 button panel with these fan controllers? I'm thinking the six button panel: Fan Off/On, Fan Low, Fan Med, Fan High. Plus dim-able light.

BUT...It doesn't look like the load wire on the 6 button panel can be used for the light since the light is powered by the blue fanlinc wire. And does that then make the Top On and Bottom Off buttons useless? Or is the blue wire on the Fanlinc capped off and the load wire from the keylinc panel connected directly to the fan's light load wire?

Depending on the previous answer...can the four scene buttons be used for 1) Fan On/Off, 2) Fan low, 3) Fan med, 4) Fan high

If this is the way to do it what happens when you have the fan running at high speed (button #4 is back-lit) and you hit that button #4 again what happens to the fan speed? I would hope nothing and would want to keep the button backlit. Not sure how that is done though. In other words I would want Scene A to be On/Off with corresponding back-light, scene b, c, d only go off if scene A is turned off or any other speed scene button is pushed.

Does the ISY 994i console make this easy? I assume it does (that is, I don't have to run back and forth pushing the buttons on the fan controller for the different fan modes)?

 

Thank you for your help!

 

 

[lilyoyo1]

23 minutes ago, raymondjiii said:

These have been sitting in their boxes for a few months. Is it preferred to use a six button or 8 button panel with these fan controllers? I'm thinking the six button panel: Fan Off/On, Fan Low, Fan Med, Fan High. Plus dim-able light.

BUT...It doesn't look like the load wire on the 6 button panel can be used for the light since the light is powered by the blue fanlinc wire. And does that then make the Top On and Bottom Off buttons useless? Or is the blue wire on the Fanlinc capped off and the load wire from the keylinc panel connected directly to the fan's light load wire?

Depending on the previous answer...can the four scene buttons be used for 1) Fan On/Off, 2) Fan low, 3) Fan med, 4) Fan high

If this is the way to do it what happens when you have the fan running at high speed (button #4 is back-lit) and you hit that button #4 again what happens to the fan speed? I would hope nothing and would want to keep the button backlit. Not sure how that is done though. In other words I would want Scene A to be On/Off with corresponding back-light, scene b, c, d only go off if scene A is turned off or any other speed scene button is pushed.

Does the ISY 994i console make this easy? I assume it does (that is, I don't have to run back and forth pushing the buttons on the fan controller for the different fan modes)?

 

Thank you for your help!

 

 

UDIs wiki has instructions on how to set up the fanlinc with a kpl. 

6 or 8 button is user preference. I googled isy fanlinc installation and found a video where someone details how to wire a kpl to be used with a fanlinc. 

[raymondjiii]

39 minutes ago, lilyoyo1 said:

UDIs wiki has instructions on how to set up the fanlinc with a kpl. 

6 or 8 button is user preference. I googled isy fanlinc installation and found a video where someone details how to wire a kpl to be used with a fanlinc. 

The wiki is a start. Oddly, they talk about a 6 button keypadlinc but then go on to talk about buttons C, E and G which do not exist on a 6-button keypadlinc. Unfortunately, that wiki doesn't talk about the light but I'll check your video though. Thanks.

[lilyoyo1]

1 hour ago, raymondjiii said:

The wiki is a start. Oddly, they talk about a 6 button keypadlinc but then go on to talk about buttons C, E and G which do not exist on a 6-button keypadlinc. Unfortunately, that wiki doesn't talk about the light but I'll check your video though. Thanks.

The same premise applies to any button/keypad. It's up to theprogrammer to decide how they want to do things as there are different ways to get things working

[Geddy]

@raymondjiii there was also some length discussions and additional information given in a recent topic found here - 

 

 

Either way, yes, it can be done as you are considering. Yes, you can turn the buttons to not toggle so if it's on you can hit it again and it won't turn off (although most don't do this...I think). If you set the buttons to toggle you can get away with only using 3 buttons.

Most have considered:
A = High
B = Medium
C = Low
D = Off (or unused)

On/Off are setup to control the light portion of the fanlinc.

I set my KPL and Fanlinc up when I was on Firmware 4.x and it still works in 5.4.3 so I have not made the adjustment to the 5.x update that is in the wiki. Although, I also didn't exactly follow the setup in the wiki for 4.x. 

 

Please note:  "Click on Copy Scene Attributes from..." is no longer available in 5.x so you will need to set each devise setting in the scene you create. 

 

2 hours ago, raymondjiii said:

Oddly, they talk about a 6 button keypadlinc but then go on to talk about buttons C, E and G which do not exist on a 6-button keypadlinc.

Correct...they're using an 8 button keypad C, D, E, F = A, B, C, D of a 6 button keypad. The Wiki is using 3 buttons on the left side of the KPL to control the fan. It would appear that their C, E, G buttons are in toggle mode so when the scene is turned off the fan motor will be in the off state. 

 

Because I set mine up maybe 5 or so years ago I think I used some of the old methods. (those posts can be found using Google Site Search) 

Good luck!