Lighted ceiling fans are multi-functional. They serve the purpose of beautifying a room while providing a cool breeze and central lighting that reaches farther than light from a table lamp, which only benefits the person sitting right beside it. Lighted ceiling fans are a little more difficult to install than regular ceiling fans because you have to wire the light fitter kit to the regular fan, but with an assistant to help you with the weight of the fan, the installation shouldn't take more than 1 hour.
Instructions
1. Before you begin working on electrical wiring, you should turn off the light switch and the circuit breaker in the room in which the ceiling fan will be installed. Try to install the ceiling fan during the daytime so you can open a window for natural light. If you're doing the installation during the night, get as much light as you can from other rooms as possible, and having a spotlight will be a tremendous help.
2. Remove the cover of the outlet box on the ceiling and expose the wires you'll use to connect the fan. This is normally done with a Phillips screwdriver, but if you don't have one, a flathead screwdriver will work.
3. Using the screws that you just removed from the outlet box cover, connect the ceiling fan's mounting bracket to the outlet box. If you're installing the fan on an angled wall, see that the open end of the mounting bracket is turned toward the higher side of the ceiling. If it's turned toward the lower side, the fan blades will hit the ceiling when they're installed.
4. On the ceiling fan motor, take out the motor screws and washers from the bottom of the motor.
5. Decide whether you want to use a short downrod or a long one. A long downrod is only used for high ceilings. Once you've decided, push the wires from the top of the motor up through the downrod, slide the canopy (the part of the ceiling fan that covers the mounting bracket) over the downrod with the open side facing upward and then slide the yoke cover (the part of the ceiling fan that covers the screws at the bottom end of the downrod) over the downrod with the open side facing downward.
6. Take out the pin and the clip that holds the pin at the top of the motor and slide the downrod into the motor. Once the downrod is in the motor, slide the pin back into place and lock the downrod and the motor together with the holding clip.
7. Hang the downrod on the mounting bracket and ensure that it is secure before moving on to the next section.
8. Use a wire connector to connect the wire that is attached to the mounting bracket to the ground wire from the outlet box. The ground wire will be either green or copper. All you have to do is take the ends of the wires and hold them together, put the wire connector over the two wires and turn it clockwise until it can't move anymore.
9. Connect the black power wire from the outlet box and the black and blue wires from the fan motor together if you want the fan and the lights controlled by the chains on the fan.
Alternately, there may be a red wire in the outlet box, which means that you can connect it to the blue wire to have the fan and the light controlled by different light switches.
10. Connect the white wire from the outlet box to the white wire from the fan motor.
11. Make sure none of the wires are exposed before moving on to the next step. If they are, remove the wire connectors and connect them again.
12. Slide the canopy on the downrod up to the ceiling to cover the mounting bracket and insert screws through the holes on the canopy and the mounting bracket to secure it.
13. Attach the ceiling fan blade arms to the ceiling fan blades with blade screws and washers.
14. Attach the fan blade arms to the fan motor with the motor screws and washers that you removed in Step 4 in the first section.
15. Connect the wire from the fan motor to the wire from the light kit fitter.
16. Attach the light kit fitter to the fan motor by aligning the holes in the motor with the holes in the light kit fitter and inserting screws to hold it in place.
17.Install the light bulb(s) on the light kit.
18. Push the light shade up until the threaded end of the light kit and the pull chain sticks out of the bottom and then thread the center cap onto the bottom of the light shade. Attach the end of the pull chain to finish the installation of the ceiling fan. Turn on the circuit breaker and the light switch, and make sure everything is working. Clean up your mess and admire your work.
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