How To Wire In A Ceiling Fan

Connect the green copper wires together.

How to wire in a ceiling fan. Join the three wires with an appropriately sized wire connector. 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 the black insulated wire from the ceiling fan to the black insulated wire from the electrical box.

Connect black wires together. Tuck the wires back into the box. Secure the pigtail wire to the box with a grounding screw or clip.

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. Tuck the connected wires into the ceiling bracket. Connect the lighting wire typically blue to the black fan wire and the black ceiling wire.

Then a 3 wire cable from there also going to the ceiling fan. Turn on the power from. Wiring diagram fan and light with source at ceiling.

Take your wires and tuck them into the ceiling bracket so that you. Finishing the installation 1. The second one will be used to connect the two white neutral wires while the third will join the ground wires.

Likewise the ground wire is connected to any grounding terminals in the switch box and spliced to run to the fan location. If you do not have a separate toggle switch on the wall to operate the ceiling fan and. The neutral from the source is spliced in the switch box with the white wire running to the fan and at the other end to the neutral wire on the ceiling fixture.