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Posted by John Grabowski on March 4, 2007, 7:31 am
> First time poster here, so be nice....
>
> I bought a ceiling fan with light from Lowes this afternoon and
> installed it this evening. This combo piece is replacing an existing
> fan-only fixture, and as such, there were only three wires coming out
> of the outlet box (white, black, and ground). The fan operated off of
> a single wall switch.
>
> The instructions on my new fixture have (I thought) a wiring section
> titled "Fan and Light controlled by chain" and has an illustration
> connecting the fan white/black to the outlet white/black, and having
> the fan blue wire capped off and not connecting to anything.
>
> Anywho, that's what I did, and the fan works great. Problem is, my
> lights won't come on.
>
> I'm sure this has been posted before, but I searched for a while and
> couldn't find anything that fit this situation.
>
> Any help is extremely appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike in Franklin TN
>
The blue wire is for the light. Connect it to the black wire.
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