Step By Step Guide To Wire A Ceiling Fan
Wiring a ceiling fan is not so difficult and is mostly like wiring a light fixture. While wiring a ceiling fan, make sure that all the wire connections are made securely and with the proper size of wire nuts. The nuts should not be loose and no copper strands should be left uncovered.
Mostly all the ceiling fans have 4 wires or say 3 wires plus a ground wire. Their colors are black, white, green and an additional color (usually red, blue, or black/white striped).
Black wire of ceiling fan is used to connect the hot terminal of the fan and for connecting hot terminal of light kit, red/blue/striped is used. For connecting the neutral terminal of the ceiling fan white wire is used. In the end, for whole setup green wire can be used to make ground connection.
Now start connecting the wires of fan to the home wiring. Start with the neutral wire connection. The neutral wire of fan that is white in color is required to be connected with the neutral wire of house (white color). Also check if the white wire of your ceiling fan has a colored tape over it then that may signify that this wire should not be used as neural wire.
Green wire of ceiling fan is required to be connected to ground wire of the house wiring. The ground wire of home wiring connection could be bare or green in color. In case ground wire is missing in your home then grounded connection can be provided from metal conduit or electrical box and you need to attach the ground wire of your ceiling fan to them.
After this, connect both the hot terminals of your ceiling fan. For connecting these terminals, first make sure if you will be attaching the light to your fan or not. In case you will not use the light fixture then end the connection part by connecting black terminal of fan to black terminal of your house wiring.
Other case could be that you are fixing the light kit along with your ceiling fan. In this case for providing connection to both of them, connect their hot terminals to the black lead in your home electric wire. But make sure that operating switch of both is separate.
After this your job is done. Like this you can easily connect a ceiling fan. However, you may face problems while doing it for first time, so call an expert who can help you in doing it successfully.
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