Connect the blue wire to the red wire. You can install a ceiling fan with a light in a room with a single light switch with a simple wiring trick.
How To Wire Ceiling Fans And Switches
How to wire a ceiling fan to a light switch. Join the three wires with an appropriately sized wire connector. Your power supply line the black wire should be feeding both switches and those switches power the fan black or the light blue. Make sure the box is rated for a ceiling fan. First turn off power to the fixture at the electrical panel. Line voltage enters the switch outlet box and the line wire connects to each switch. Switched lines and neutral connect to a 3 wire cable that travels to the lightfan outlet box in the ceiling.
For this youll need three twist on wire connectors. The fan control switch usually connects to the black wire and the light kit switch to the red wire of the 3 way cable. Connect black fan wire to the black ceiling wire. The first connector will join the black power supply wire from the electrical box to the black and blue wires from the fan. The second one will be used to connect the two white neutral wires while the third will join the ground wires. Separate switches for bath fan and light from single switch in a 1960s house duration.
Connect the ground wire from the ceiling fan often this is connected to the fans hanger bracket to the circuit ground wire and to the electrical box if it is metal using a pigtail wire to connect to the box. Secure the pigtail wire to the box with a grounding screw or clip. Sparky channel 28799 views. Second remove the light fixture in the room. To do this method the wire from your wall circuit to your light has to have 3 wires.
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