How To Wire A Ceiling Fan And Light Separately

At the fan splice the wires matching the colors of each and connect the ground wire to the grounding terminal.

How to wire a ceiling fan and light separately. For this you ll need three twist on wire connectors. Connect a black wire from the ceiling to the black wire from the fan. Connect the white wire from the ceiling to the white wire from the fan.

If you do not have a separate toggle switch on the wall to operate the ceiling fan and light separately grab the blue wire and place it with the black wire from the fan motor and the black. Connect the green wire to your household ground wire copper bare wire. Splice the source neutral to the white cable wire.

Twist those two wires together then connect them to the black or red wire that came out of your electrical box. Connect the 2 green wires together. Once you have found and identified all of the wires on your fan and in your electrical box you can get to work on connecting them.

3 wire cable switch legs from first ceiling outlet down to a 2 gang box for the first set of switches for ceiling fan light control. 2 wire cable power out to the second ceiling outlet box. 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.

Wire the source ground to the ground wires for the switch and the fan. Tuck the wires back into the box. Typically a green wire is attached to your fan bracket and the other green wire is attached to the fan itself.

Leave the green or copper wire that s coming out the ceiling unattached for now. The first connector will join the black power supply wire from the electrical box to the black and blue wires from the fan. That second wire is usually blue or red.