How Do You Wire A Ceiling Fan With Light

If your fan also has a light it will have a blue wire.

Zbook fan noise. Turn off power at the breaker. Make sure the box is rated for a ceiling fan. If it isnt hardware and home improvement stores sell boxes suitable for ceiling fans.

The blue wire is the hot wire for the ceiling fan light fixture. Examine the wires coming out of your fan. Before you can start wiring your new ceiling fan youll need to turn off the power to its circuit by flipping the correct breaker in your homes electrical panel.

The black wire running to the ceiling box is connected to the other terminal on the switch. Wiring a ceiling fan and light getting started. Find the short green wire or the green ground screw on your ceiling fan hanging.

Once youve connected the wires just screw the lighting assembly onto the ceiling fan and install a light bulb and glass shade over it. Second remove the light fixture in the room. You can install a ceiling fan with a light in a room with a single light switch with a simple wiring trick.

Connect the red wire in the ceiling to the black wire in the light kit and the black wire in the ceiling to the black wire in the fan. Attach the white wire from the light fixture to the white wire in the ceiling fan housing strip about two centimetres of insulation from the hot wire in the light fixture this wire may be blue red or black connect hot wire to the appropriate wire in the fan. Here the hot source is connected directly to the switch and 2 wire cable runs from there to the ceiling fan.

Tuck the wires back into the box. There should also be a green grounding wire attached to the fan bracket itself. If it does get a ceiling fan light kit from a home improvement store and connect the wires on the light to the wires on the fan using wire nuts.

Connect the green wire to your household ground wire copperbare wire. Use this wiring when the power source originates at the wall box and you want to control both the fan and light with a single switch. Your fan should have a green white and black wire coming out of the top of it.