How to Install a Battery Operated Wall Switch on a Napoleon Ventless Fireplace

A Napoleon ventless fireplace is a convenient, attractive alternative to traditional wood-burning fireplaces. Ventless gas fireplaces provide warmth and beauty without the hassle of stacking wood or cleaning ashes. Most Napoleon-brand gas fireplaces have a control panel located under the front of the fireplace. This location can be awkward and inconvenient, making it difficult to turn the fireplace on and off. But there's a solution. Battery-operated wall switches use radio signals to communicate with a controller mounted near the fireplace. Connect the controller to the fireplace controls and you can use the remote switch to control the fireplace. There are no wires to run from the switch to the controller, so installation is easy.

4 "AA" alkaline batteries
Pencil
Drywall saw
Old-work junction box
2 screws, #6-32 (1 inch)
Decorator switch plate
Two-conductor wire
Wire strippers
Spade connectors
Wire crimpers

Instructions

- 1
  Locate a convenient, easily accessible position on a wall to mount the battery-operated switch. Place the template included with the old-work junction box on the wall in the selected location. Trace around the template with a pencil, then remove the template.
- 2
  Cut along the pencil lines with a drywall saw. Push the old-work box into the hole in the wall. Tighten the screws on the old-work box with a Phillips screwdriver.
- 3
  Pull the plastic battery-insulation tab out of the side of the wall switch. Fit the switch into the old-work box, insert a one-inch #6-32 screw in each mounting hole and tighten them with a Phillips screwdriver. Place a decorator plate over the face of the switch and mount it with the included flat-head screws.
- 4
  Open the back of the wireless receiver and install four "AA" batteries according to the diagram inside the battery compartment. Slide the switch on the receiver to the "Off" position.
- 5
  Open the control panel on the front of the Napoleon ventless fireplace. Place the wireless receiver in an open area behind the control-panel cover.
- 6
  Run a length of two-conductor wire from the wireless receiver to the fireplace switch. Strip the ends of the conductors, exposing ½ inch of bare wire.
- 7
  Slide the bare ends of the conductors into the terminals on the back of the receiver. Tighten the terminal screws on the back of the receiver.
- 8
  Place spade connectors on the bare conductors at the end of the two-conductor wire at the fireplace switch. Crimp the connectors onto the wires. Slide the spade connectors onto the terminals marked "TH/TP" and "TH" on the back of the fireplace switch.
- 9
  Slide the switch on the receiver to the "Remote" position. Close the control-panel cover.

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