Easy Way To Install A Ceiling Fan

Attaching a ceiling fan is an easy job that you can do yourself. By being little careful, you can successfully do the connection. Use right size of nuts for making the connections and tightly close them. Properly cover the connections with an electric tape to avoid any shock.

Mostly all the ceiling fans have 4 wires or say 3 wires plus a ground wire. Their colors are black, white, green and an additional color (usually red, blue, or black/white striped).

Out of four wires, black wire represents the hot lead of the fan whereas red/blue/striped wire represents hot lead of the light kit (optional). White wire represents the neutral lead of ceiling fan as well as light kit and green wire represents the ground wire for whole assembly.

Now as you know the significance of all the wires, you can start connecting these wires. Connect the neutral wire of ceiling fan to neutral wire of home wiring. Some of the ceiling fans have a white wire that is wrapped by a striped tape or a colored tape. Such wires sometimes show that they should be used for some other purpose rather than for making a neutral connection.

Green wire of ceiling fan is required to be connected to ground wire of the house wiring. The ground wire of home wiring connection could be bare or green in color. In case ground wire is missing in your home then grounded connection can be provided from metal conduit or electrical box and you need to attach the ground wire of your ceiling fan to them.

After connecting ground wire, you need to connect the hot terminal of your ceiling fan. If your ceiling fan has no light fixture then attach this hot terminal to hot wire of the electric supply that is generally found in black color.

If your ceiling fan has a light kit then you need to connect both wires of the fan to the hot power supply lead, unless your house is wired to switch the ceiling fan and light independently.

This is how you can wire your ceiling fan. But if you encounter something different from this and you are not aware of how to safely handle it then you may call a professional for this.

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