Wiring A Ceiling Fan Is Not A Difficult Task
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.
For connecting a ceiling fan 4 different wires are provided. These wires are normally found to have black, white, green and one more color (red/blue or black/white striped). Each color has different meaning.
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.
As green wire is used for making grounded connection of your ceiling fan assembly therefore you need to attach it to ground wire of your homes wiring. If ground wire is not there in the wires of your house then you may connect the green wire of the ceiling fan to electrical box or metal conduit that have a grounded connection.
After connecting ground wire, you need to connect the hot terminal of your ceiling fan. If your ceiling fan has no light fixture then attach this hot terminal to hot wire of the electric supply that is generally found in black color.
If your ceiling fan has a light kit then you need to connect both wires of the fan to the hot power supply lead, unless your house is wired to switch the ceiling fan and light independently.
Your work of connecting a ceiling fan is over now. So by now you must have got an understanding of doing it. But if you find things different while performing the task then consult a professional to help you out.
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