Wiring a ceiling fan- electricians welcome. (1 Viewer)

[Galileo]

Just bought a new ceiling fan/light fixture for my son's room.  I am trying to install it, but running into a wiring issue.  I have black, white and blue wires leading from the fan/light assembly.  From my ceiling I have black, white, red and bare copper.  In addition, the mounting bracket has a green grounding lead attached to it.

The instructions tell me to connect "the ground conductor of the 120V supply to the green ground lead of the fan."  I do not have a green ground lead from the fan, only from the mounting bracket,  I assume this should be connected to the bare copper wire from ceiling.  The previous fan had nothing connected to the bare wire.

The instructions also say to connect fan motor white to supply white...seems straight forward.  It then says to connect the fan motor black wire and the blue wire for the light to the black household supply wire.  If I do this, that leaves me with an unconnected red wire from the ceiling.  The previous fan had two switches operating it...one for the fan and one for the light.  Is the red wire simply the hot wire for the second switch?  Should I connect the blue wire for the light to the red instead of a double connection to black?

 

[Card Trader]

Yes, connect ground to the bare copper.  Red wire is fine to leave unused.

 

[SWC]

i totally misread what you typed out there but i agree with cardhan up there the bare copper in the ceiling is probably your ground and should probably be hooked up to the green ground on the fans mounting bracket the previous fan was probably just not grounded which is dumb also call and electrician because like i always say i never mess with power or gas because those things can blow you up or electroshock you to death take that to the bank bromigo

 

[Thunderlips]

Just bought a new ceiling fan/light fixture for my son's room.  I am trying to install it, but running into a wiring issue.  I have black, white and blue wires leading from the fan/light assembly.  From my ceiling I have black, white, red and bare copper.  In addition, the mounting bracket has a green grounding lead attached to it.

The instructions tell me to connect "the ground conductor of the 120V supply to the green ground lead of the fan."  I do not have a green ground lead from the fan, only from the mounting bracket,  I assume this should be connected to the bare copper wire from ceiling.  The previous fan had nothing connected to the bare wire.

The instructions also say to connect fan motor white to supply white...seems straight forward.  It then says to connect the fan motor black wire and the blue wire for the light to the black household supply wire.  If I do this, that leaves me with an unconnected red wire from the ceiling.  The previous fan had two switches operating it...one for the fan and one for the light.  Is the red wire simply the hot wire for the second switch?  Should I connect the blue wire for the light to the red instead of a double connection to black?

I'm not an electrician, but how many switches operate this fan?  Do you have a separate switch on the wall for both the light and fan....or do you have one switch on the wall for the light and then turn the fan on/off with the pull chain on the fan?

Nevermind, I actually just read your post.

The red wire is a hot wire for one of the switches. 

 

[Galileo]

I'm not an electrician, but how many switches operate this fan?  Do you have a separate switch on the wall for both the light and fan....or do you have one switch on the wall for the light and then turn the fan on/off with the pull chain on the fan?

Nevermind, I actually just read your post.

The red wire is a hot wire for one of the switches. 

This is what I am going with for now.  Connected the blue to the red and we will see.  If I never post again, it didn't work...

 

[Thunderlips]

This is what I am going with for now.  Connected the blue to the red and we will see.  If I never post again, it didn't work...

Good luck. 

 

[SWC]

godspeed you crazy wiring wirer you take that to the bank bromigo

 

[JoeSteeler]

RIP

 

[Galileo]

Good news...I am still here.  House didn't burn down yet.

Bad news...The light works fine, bu I get nothing with the fan.  Back to the drawing board

 

[ChiefD]

Good news...I am still here.  House didn't burn down yet.

Bad news...The light works fine, bu I get nothing with the fan.  Back to the drawing board

Did you pull the chain?

 

[Galileo]

And we have fan action!  If the house doesn't catch fire in the next week or so, I'll put up another in my other son's room.

 

[The Commish]

And we have fan action!  If the house doesn't catch fire in the next week or so, I'll put up another in my other son's room.

solution?  from your ceiling, the black is the main and would control your light.  the red is from the second switch and would control the fan.  you had it correct.  not sure why it didn't work.  i'm no electrician, but I just installed 6 of these things so it's fresh in my mind.

 

[Galileo]

I am not sure why it didn't work either.  I took it all down and re-did the connections.  Maybe something just wasn't connected well?  I didn't really do anything different, but after reconnecting everything it worked as normal.  It should be so simple, but those things are always a pain in the ### to install for me..  The worst part may be all those damn little screws that my fat fingers can't grip and get into tight places...dropped another...10 minutes wasted searching for it...rinse repeat.

 

[Dragons]

This is what I am going with for now.  Connected the blue to the red and we will see.  If I never post again, it didn't work...

This would have been good exit schtick.