Wiring A Fan With Light

Want to turn a lamp on with a light switch.

Wiring a fan with light.

Hook the neutral and ground wires first. Install the lamp globes and light. Connect white wires together. Jan 24 18 02 26 pm.

If you want to run both the light and fan on one switch twist the blue and black wire from the unit together. Now connect the neutral wires from the ceiling and fan together. For this you ll need three twist on wire connectors. This wiring diagram illustrates the connections for a ceiling fan and light with two switches a speed controller for the fan and a dimmer for the lights.

Remember that the hot black or red wire goes to the brass colored screw neutral white to the silver screw. Connect the green copper wires together. The ground should be coming off of your frame. Attach the ceiling fan s light kit wiring to the wiring harness hanging beneath the fan motor.

Connect the black and blue wires in your fan if you only have 1 switch. The ceiling fan motor does not have a ground wire. If there is a bare ground wire in the fixture often found in ceiling fans and exterior fixtures twist it together with the ground wire from the cable and put a wire nut on it. Sometimes it is handy to have an outlet controlled by a switch.

Twist all the white wires in the box together and cap them. Connect the black and blue wires coming out of your fan. This will allow you to control your fan and lights with a single switch. Connect the red wire from the fan to the other terminal on the fan switch and the black wire to the light switch.

The source is at the switches and the input of each is spliced to the black source wire with a wire nut. The wiring diagram above is for typical installation wiring light is switched the fan is powered by a pull chain 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. Find the short green wire or the green ground screw on your ceiling fan hanging. Step by step instructions on how to wire a switched outlet.

Wire a switched outlet. Mount the light kit to the motor by tightening the mounting screws. Make a pigtail of the ground wire using two 6 inch lengths of bare wire and connect one ground wire to the fan switch and one to the light switch. Jan 24 18 02 09 pm.

From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box. The blue wire is the hot wire for the ceiling fan light fixture.