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Re: White, Black, Green, Blue and RED lighting wire ? Terry 12-09-2007
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Posted by Terry on December 9, 2007, 10:14 pm
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:13:54 -0800 (PST), holiday@1201music.com wrote:

>Greetings, Handymen.
>
>I'm putting up a ceiling fan with light.
>In incarnation A, it works great, wherein white goes with white, green
>is grounded, and blue AND black (from the fan) go with the black
>ceiling wire.
>However, I need the light to work from the light switch and the fan
>from the chain.
>SOooo.. there is a red wire from the ceiling and the instructions do
>mention that I'd need to separate white, black and blue to get one of
>them working from the switch.
>Am I ok attaching ceiling fan blue to ceiling red wire ?

Sounds right to me. I would check it with a tester first though.

The black should be hot all the time and the red will go on and off
with the wall switch.

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