Wiring A Fan With Light

This will allow you to control your fan and lights with a single switch.

Wiring a fan with light.

Jan 24 18 02 26 pm. Sometimes it is handy to have an outlet controlled by a switch. Jan 24 18 02 09 pm. Hook the neutral and ground wires first.

Wiring ceiling fan and light with one switch this method allows you to turn on the fan and the light from one single wall switch cutting out the necessity to use the pull chain every time you want to adjust the fan. Find the short green wire or the green ground screw on your ceiling fan hanging. Want to turn a lamp on with a light switch. For this you ll need three twist on wire connectors.

Mount the light kit to the motor by tightening the mounting screws. Wire a switched outlet. This wiring diagram illustrates the connections for a ceiling fan and light with two switches a speed controller for the fan and a dimmer for the lights. Connect the red wire from the fan to the other terminal on the fan switch and the black wire to the light switch.

If you want to run both the light and fan on one switch twist the blue and black wire from the unit together. Twist all the white wires in the box together and cap them. Step by step instructions on how to wire a switched outlet. Now connect the neutral wires from the ceiling and fan together.

If there is a bare ground wire in the fixture often found in ceiling fans and exterior fixtures twist it together with the ground wire from the cable and put a wire nut on it. Make a pigtail of the ground wire using two 6 inch lengths of bare wire and connect one ground wire to the fan switch and one to the light switch. Connect the black and blue wires in your fan if you only have 1 switch. Install the lamp globes and light.

Connect white wires together. Attach the ceiling fan s light kit wiring to the wiring harness hanging beneath the fan motor. Switched outlet wiring diagram. From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box.

Twist the copper ends of the black and blue wires together like you did with the previous wires. Connect the green copper wires together. The wiring diagram above is for typical installation wiring light is switched the fan is powered by a pull chain once you have found and identified all of the wires on your fan and in your electrical box you can get to work on connecting them. The source is at the switches and the input of each is spliced to the black source wire with a wire nut.

Remember that the hot black or red wire goes to the brass colored screw neutral white to the silver screw. The ground should be coming off of your frame.