Ceiling fan wiring diagram two switches pdf 519kb. The hot wires are either black or red the white wires are neutral and the bare one is the ground wire.
Installing Ceiling Fan Switches
How to wire a ceiling fan with two switches. Screw the fan in place. The fan control switch usually connects to the black wire and the light kit switch to the red wire of the 3 way cable. The ceiling fan with two switches will have two sets of wires. If you only have 1 switch connect the bound blue and black wires to the black wire coming out of your ceiling. Switched lines and neutral connect to a 3 wire cable that travels to the lightfan outlet box in the ceiling. Attach each hot wire from the fan to a hot wire in the ceiling.
Then connect your remaining wires from the ceiling fan to the corresponding wires on the receiver. In the switch box. If you have a 2 switch setup connect the blue and black wires to the blue and black wires coming out of your ceiling. Connect the blue wire to the red wire. This setup allows you to control the light and fan separately. You should always connect your hot wires last.
From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box. Fan speed would need to be controlled by a pull chain or in some newer fans a wireless remote. Split the incoming hot wire into a y and connect it to a terminal on each switch. This means that you will have black red white and bare. Attach the red and black wires from the fan light unit to the top terminal screws on the switches. Twist your hot wires to the black wire in the ceiling.
Connect black fan wire to the black ceiling wire. Connect white wires together. The red wire is spliced to the output on the dimmer and at the other end to the blue light wire. Connect the two white wires in the switch box together with a wire nut. Connect two of the black. Wiring two switches for ceiling fans chuck to wire the second ceiling fan separately from the first ceiling fan the power source must be obtained from before the first ceiling fan switch or obtain a separate power source for the second ceiling fan.
Cap it off using a wire nut and secure with electrical tape. Connect the red wire to the screw in switch 2. Ceiling fan wiring two switches this ceiling fan wiring configuration is quite common. Line voltage enters the switch outlet box and the line wire connects to each switch. Connect the black wire to the screw located in swith 1. At the switch box the black wire is splice to the output on the speed controller and at the other end to the black fan wire.
You will then want to connect your remaining hot wire to the receiver again using a wire nut and electrical tape. More about wiring a ceiling fan.
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