Replace Ceiling Fan With Light Red Wire

Sherri demonstrates how to take down and replace a ceiling fan you may just have a fourth wire a red wire do you know what to do with the red wire.

Replace ceiling fan with light red wire.

The light fixture i want to install has only two wires one white and one black. Ceiling fans are often equipped with a separate light kit that hangs beneath the fan. The cable from the switch box to the ceiling box has three wires two identical blacks and a white with one of the blacks connected to a mysterious blue wire from the fan. You can interchange or replace the color of live wire if you have multiple devices connected though the same path or at the same place.

White wire is neutral. I want to replace a ceiling fan light with a regular light fixture. The switch it is connected to is a dimmer switch with an on off button as well as a dimmer slider. While working with fan connections make sure you connect wire as shown or according to the diagram on the user manual.

The red wire in the ceiling fan or light fixture wiring electrical question. If your ceiling fan does not have a light fixture then simply cap off the red wire and attach the fan motor to the black wire. Either disconnect the red wire from the switch or replace the switch with a single pole version. I am trying to replace a ceiling light fixture.

A red wire up in the ceiling fan junction box usually indicates that the wiring has been installed which provides separate switch for the light and a separate switch for the fan motor. Red wire is sometimes included and acts as a conductor to carry power to the light kit. The wiring in the ceiling contains a black red and white wire as well as a ground. A black wire to carry the hot feed a white wire for.

Consult the instructions that came with the light for the proper wire connections. Most common electrical cables include three conductors. 1 red wire ceiling fan wiring. If you had a red wire coming from your ceiling it is hooked up to your wall switch.

A ceiling fan with a light fixture usually has two separate circuits one for the fan and one for the lights. A ceiling fan wiring diagram for us canada. Remove any screws securing the fan to the electrical box in the ceiling and take down the fan. Blue wire is for the light if light is included with the fan.

Each of these has a black hot wire and each should also have a white neutral wire and a bare ground wire although there may be only one common neutral and one common ground to serve both circuits. If the electrical box was previously used for a fan the wall switch is probably a two pole switch.