Installing a ceiling fan can be confusing because of the four conductors attached to the motor. The confusion starts with the light kit conductor. This conductor can be blue, black with a white stripe or even yellow, depending on the fan manufacturer. Knowing which conductor connects to which wire helps ease confusion when wiring the ceiling fan. Do not confuse the light kit wire with the ground wire and connect it incorrectly to the electrical house wiring.
Instructions
1. Turn the power off to the ceiling fan circuit by turning off the breaker at the main electrical panel.
2. Assemble your ceiling fan, following the directions provided with your ceiling fan and using a Phillips or slotted screwdriver. Identify the four conductors from the ceiling fan motor. The white wire is the neutral conductor, the green wire is the ground, the black wire is the hot conductor that supplies power to the fan and the remaining wire is the hot conductor that supplies power to the light kit.
3. Hang the ceiling fan on the hanging bracket, following the manufacturer's directions. Identify the wires inside the ceiling electrical box. The wires include a white or neutral, black or hot and a bare copper ground wire.
4. Wire the white conductor from the ceiling fan to the white wire from the ceiling electrical box by twisting an orange wire connector onto both wires. Repeat this wire connection for the green ground ceiling fan conductor and the bare copper ground wire.
5. Wire the black wire from the ceiling electrical box to the two remaining hot conductors from the ceiling fan, using a red wire connector. Push all the wiring into the electrical ceiling box.
6. Complete the installation of the ceiling fan following the manufacturer's directions, using a Phillips or slotted screwdriver. Turn the power back on by turning the breaker on inside the main electrical panel.
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