How To Wire A Ceiling Fan

In this video this old house electrical contractor john barros shows how to swap a light fixture for a ceiling fan.

How to wire a ceiling fan. Connect the lighting wire typically blue to the black fan wire and the black ceiling wire. Wiring a ceiling fan and light getting started. See below for a shopping list and tools.

In this arrangement a light fixture and exhaust fan are wired to the same source. Tuck the connected wires into the ceiling bracket. Then leaving the double switch box is a 3 wire cable going to the ceiling fan and a 4 wire cable going to the other 3 way switch.

Fit the fan s faceplate over the bracket and the wires and line up the. Join the three wires with an appropriately sized wire connector. Finishing the installation 1.

Notice this circuit has a 3 wire cable power source coming into the double switch box. Connect the green copper wires together. Connect the black insulated wire from the ceiling fan to the black insulated wire from the electrical box.

Connect the ground wire from the ceiling fan often this is connected to the fan s hanger bracket to the circuit ground wire and to the electrical box if it is metal using a pigtail wire to connect to the box. Screw in the fan faceplate over the bracket. Wire the source ground to the ground wires for the switch and the fan.

Turn on the power from. At the fan splice the wires matching the colors of each and connect the ground wire to the grounding terminal. Connect black wires together.