How To Wire Up A Ceiling Fan

Before you can start wiring your new ceiling fan you ll need to turn off the.

How to wire up a ceiling fan. Screw in the fan faceplate over the bracket. The red wire is spliced to the output on the dimmer and at the other end to the blue light wire. Then a 3 wire cable from there also going to the ceiling fan.

Turn the power back on and test the fan. The wires inside of a ceiling fan are relatively simple but you have to know what each one. Turn off power at the breaker.

Tuck the connected wires into the ceiling bracket. Wiring a ceiling fan and light getting started. Connect white wires together.

Finishing the installation 1. 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. Connect black wires together.

The ceiling fan motor does not have a ground wire. Then a 3 wire cable from there also going to the ceiling fan. Take your wires and tuck them into the ceiling bracket so that you.

Connect the lighting wire typically blue to the black fan wire and the black ceiling wire. At the switch box the black wire is splice to the output on the speed controller and at the other end to the black fan wire. Tuck the wires back into the box.