Thanks for your help.
I have a black wire and a white wire coming from the lite unit. From the ceiling (fan) I have 3 white wires, one black wire, one blue wire and the wires coming from the pull switch for the lite. Since I can't get the lite to turn off; I'm thinking that my problem is in the pull switch wiring. The fan installation book says the blue wire should be connected to the black wires. Do both wires from the pull switch get spliced to something or only one?
thanks
All of the instructions here assume that the house wiring is properly installed. Use the multimeter to check before you connect anything.
With the breaker on, the voltage between a black on one cable and the white on that cable shoud be 120. The voltage on all other wires should be zero when measured relative to the green wire on the cable that is powered.
After you have checked that, turn off the power and proceed.
All white wires get connected to the white wires in the box, so you will have two white wires from the box and 3 white wires from the fixture, all connected.
All green wires from fixture and cables get connected together.
All of the white wires should remain connected for the following tests.
There should be two wires from the switch. One wire of the switch gets connected to the light (maybe it already is). The other gets connected to a source of power but I can't tell from the description if that is the blue wire, or what the blue wire does. It could be that it should be connected to the black wires in the box.
This is where you use that multimeter again.
With the black wire from the fan connected to the black wires in the box, turn on the power. Then see if the fan works on all speeds. If the light stays on then there is an internal connection to the light from the black wire.
Then measure the voltage between the blue wire and the white wires. If the blue wire is hot for all positions of the switch then it is probably the place to connect the other wire from the light switch. If it is on and off with the fan switch then it has something to do with the fan speed control and you need to read the instructions.
If the blue wire is never hot then it probably gets connected to black bundle in the box. That is what I suspect is the place to connect it, so that it could be used with a wall switch to power the light OR the fan.
The instructions should have a diagram showing how to connect, or some very clear instructions. If neither is available then you may have to figure out what the blue wire is connected to.