A ceiling fan
Modern ceiling fans are generally made with the do-it-yourself homeowner in mind. They come with special mounting brackets that make it easy to secure the fan unit to an existing electrical box in the ceiling. The fan can be installed in place of any existing electrical ceiling fixture, including an existing ceiling fan. It’s controlled from the same wall switch that controlled the previous fixture.
Instructions
1. Turn off power to the existing ceiling fan. Remove the screws that are holding the fan to the ceiling and lower it carefully down, enough to get at the wiring above it. Disconnect the wires, leaving wire ends hanging out of the electrical box in the ceiling. If there is a mounting bracket attached to the electrical box, unscrew and remove that as well. (A mounting bracket is a circular ring of metal that attaches directly to the ceiling electrical box and then holds the fan.)
2. Locate the mounting bracket that came with your new fan unit. Hold the bracket up to the electrical box and line up the screw holes from the bracket to the screw holes on the box. The holes are standard, and should line up. Install the screws that came with the bracket to secure it there. The wires from the ceiling electrical box should hang down through the middle of the bracket.
3. Walk your new ceiling fan unit up the ladder (without the blades attached yet), and position it near the electrical box, so you can connect the wires from the fan to the wires from the box. There should be one white and one black wire coming out of both the fan and the ceiling box. Connect the like-colored wires to each other by twisting a wire nut over the ends of both wires are once and them wrapping it in electrician’s tape.
4. Twist the copper grounding wire from the ceiling electrical box around the grounding screw inside the fan unit. (The screw will be green.) Completely tighten the screw.
5. Raise the fan unit to the bracket and secure it there with the screws that came with the kit.
6. Attach the fan blades after the fan housing is installed and wired. Attach them by holding each blade up to one of the blade stems and inserting the mounting screws that came with it.
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