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Installing a ceiling fan newbee 08-08-2006
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Posted by newbee on August 8, 2006, 10:23 am
I know this is a common topic and I read a few threads but would
appreciate any help.

My guest room is pre-wired for ceiling fan. There are 2 switches (one
for fan and one for light).

The junction box has 4 wires in it. Black, White, Red and Bare
(Ground).

I bought a fan with a separate remote control. After I connected the
remote to the fan control, I have a black and a white wire coming out
of the remote control and a green from the fan (for the ground).

My question is which of the wires in the junction box should I use. I
guess the Black is hot wire for the fan, so that is easy to connect it
to the black on the junction. Should the white be connected to the
white on the junction or the red wire.

Your response is appreciated.

Thanks

SR.


Posted by Scott Townsend on August 8, 2006, 10:46 am
I would think that the red would be the Hot for Light.

Typically when you run a circuit to a device that needs 2 hots, you run a
14/3 or 12/3 Which is a Hot Black, Hot Red, Neutral White, and Copper
Ground. The voltage for both hots will travel back through the 1 Neutral.

You should also have in the Junction box a Black, White and Ground feed from
the power source as well as the Red, Black, White, Ground.

If All that you have in the Junction is Red, Black, White, Ground, then you
Have some Figuring out to do. That would mean that the power feed is at the
Fan and they are bringing the Power via 14/3 or 12/3 to the Junction and
using one wire for the Power In and the other 2 for the Power Out to the
Fan/Light.

I'm not sure if there is a standard color Scheme for that. You might have to
look at the Junction Box under the Fan to see where the wires are fed from.
You might be able to use the Ground as a Point of Reference and use a Meter
to figure out which is the Hot Leg of the three. Then trial and Error for
the Light/Fan Legs.

Scott<-=

>I know this is a common topic and I read a few threads but would
> appreciate any help.
>
> My guest room is pre-wired for ceiling fan. There are 2 switches (one
> for fan and one for light).
>
> The junction box has 4 wires in it. Black, White, Red and Bare
> (Ground).
>
> I bought a fan with a separate remote control. After I connected the
> remote to the fan control, I have a black and a white wire coming out
> of the remote control and a green from the fan (for the ground).
>
> My question is which of the wires in the junction box should I use. I
> guess the Black is hot wire for the fan, so that is easy to connect it
> to the black on the junction. Should the white be connected to the
> white on the junction or the red wire.
>
> Your response is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> SR.
>



Posted by JimL on August 8, 2006, 11:06 am
wrote:

>I know this is a common topic and I read a few threads but would
>appreciate any help.
>
>My guest room is pre-wired for ceiling fan. There are 2 switches (one
>for fan and one for light).
>
>The junction box has 4 wires in it. Black, White, Red and Bare
>(Ground).
>
>I bought a fan with a separate remote control. After I connected the
>remote to the fan control, I have a black and a white wire coming out
>of the remote control and a green from the fan (for the ground).
>
>My question is which of the wires in the junction box should I use. I
>guess the Black is hot wire for the fan, so that is easy to connect it
>to the black on the junction. Should the white be connected to the
>white on the junction or the red wire.
>
>Your response is appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>SR.

The white is neutral or common.
Red and Black are your two hot wires, one for the fan and one for the
light.

So all your white wires should connect together. The black should
go to black and the Red should go to either a 2nd black wire or to the
red blue or whatever wire the instructions say is hot.


Posted by z on August 8, 2006, 11:11 am
I wonder if you have duplication of efforts here?
Remote receiver is typically wired with black and white in from power,
and three wires out (black white and blue, i think?) to the fan.
when you say the remote has black and white coming out of it, do you
mean it's wired to the fan and the black and white need to be connected
to power, or the other way around?


newbee wrote:
> I know this is a common topic and I read a few threads but would
> appreciate any help.
>
> My guest room is pre-wired for ceiling fan. There are 2 switches (one
> for fan and one for light).
>
> The junction box has 4 wires in it. Black, White, Red and Bare
> (Ground).
>
> I bought a fan with a separate remote control. After I connected the
> remote to the fan control, I have a black and a white wire coming out
> of the remote control and a green from the fan (for the ground).
>
> My question is which of the wires in the junction box should I use. I
> guess the Black is hot wire for the fan, so that is easy to connect it
> to the black on the junction. Should the white be connected to the
> white on the junction or the red wire.
>
> Your response is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> SR.


Posted by newbee on August 8, 2006, 11:15 am
Yes, sorry about that. It should say REMOTE HAS BLACK AND WHITE COMING
INTO IT and not out of it. I connected the other ends to the fan wires
appropriately.

I now understand that the RED is hot. I only have one black wire into
the REMOTE and a white. But the remote has both a FAN and a LIGHT
switch. Where do I connect the RED?

Thanks for your reply.

SR.

z wrote:
> I wonder if you have duplication of efforts here?
> Remote receiver is typically wired with black and white in from power,
> and three wires out (black white and blue, i think?) to the fan.
> when you say the remote has black and white coming out of it, do you
> mean it's wired to the fan and the black and white need to be connected
> to power, or the other way around?
>
>
> newbee wrote:
> > I know this is a common topic and I read a few threads but would
> > appreciate any help.
> >
> > My guest room is pre-wired for ceiling fan. There are 2 switches (one
> > for fan and one for light).
> >
> > The junction box has 4 wires in it. Black, White, Red and Bare
> > (Ground).
> >
> > I bought a fan with a separate remote control. After I connected the
> > remote to the fan control, I have a black and a white wire coming out
> > of the remote control and a green from the fan (for the ground).
> >
> > My question is which of the wires in the junction box should I use. I
> > guess the Black is hot wire for the fan, so that is easy to connect it
> > to the black on the junction. Should the white be connected to the
> > white on the junction or the red wire.
> >
> > Your response is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > SR.


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