Black and blue together from the fan hook to black from ceiling. White to white. Green to tan. That is “if” the house is wired according to Hoyle.
The green and bare wires are the same, they are equipment ground and connect to metal electric box, mounting plate, fan grounding wire.
The white wire is the neutral or grounded conductor, this wire is not switched and connects to other white wires.
The fan blue and black are blue is light, black is fan motor.
The ceiling black and tan is the mystery, could be each is on its own switch and black connects to black and tan connects to blue.
The blue and black can be connected together to either ceiling black or tan but and the spare wire needs to be capped off or insulated.
1. Have on hand either wire connectors or electrical tape
2. Look at the wires coming from your ceiling fan. The black wire from the ceiling fan is the hot wire that runs the motor and turns the fan blades. The white wire is neutral and completes the fan circuit. The blue wire is the hot wire for the ceiling fan light fixture. The ceiling fan motor does not have a ground wire.
3. Find the short green wire or the green ground screw on your ceiling fan hanging bracket. Attach the bare copper wire from your electrical box to the short green wire by twisting and orange wire connector to the two wires. If you only have a green ground screw, wrap the bare copper wire around this screw and tighten the screw against the bracket to secure the wire.
4. Match the end of the white insulated wire from the ceiling fan to the end of the white wire from your electrical box. Twist a wire connector onto the two wires to complete the neutral circuit.
5. Connect the black insulated wire from the ceiling fan to the black insulated wire from the electrical box. If you do not have a separate toggle switch on the wall to operate the ceiling fan and light separately, grab the blue wire and place it with the black wire from the fan motor and the black insulated wire from the electrical box. Twist a wire connector to all three wires. If you have the additional toggle switch, connect the two black wires together with an orange wire connector, and then match the blue wire and the red wire together. Twist another orange wire connector on the red and blue wires
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SOURCE: wiring ceiling fans to wall switch
Hi Bigelow,
You need two switches. It sounds like the Electrician set up the junction box for two circuits(Lights and Fans). i say this because your supply has 4 wires, Red , Black, White and Bare. We may be able to oversome this with one Lutron Switch. Allow me to investigate, and I will be back.
SOURCE: where do you connect the blue wire
Next time don't lose the instructions.....
Black is your answer...
If just simply hooking the blue and black together with the black from the switch/power supply does not work you need to replace the wire going to the fan with a 12/3 wire(white,black,red,ground) along with a switch, what you have now is a 12/2(white,black,ground)
Here is the following way it should be hooked up using 12/3 romex to the fan from wall switch.
White,Black, ground power supply
Make sure 12/3 is fed to the fan location.
From the power you Y off the black to the red with a piece of red wire to the switch.
Then from the switch is red wire.
Then at the fan red connects to blue, black connects to black, white to white, and ground to ground.
SOURCE: lost the instructions. Where does the blue wire go
DO NOT CONNECT THE BLUE WIRE UNLESS YOU HAVE A LIGHT ON THE FAN. CONNECT IT TO THE NUTRAL WIRE OTHERWISE. IE WHITE.....
SOURCE: Wiring instructions are terrible. Ceiling wires =
That is dificult to follow .. here is the usual wiring plan for ceiling fans .. green to green or bare and mounting bracket ... ceiling black and red are live from the switches, fan and light.with a remote you really only need one of these , so cap off the red and use the black as your input to the remote .. the neutral to the remote should be the white .. there are only 3 wires from the fan so I am assuming that there is no light , or the light will be activated from the remote .. the black for the fan and the black for the lights connect to marked wires on the remote. .. lights out, fan out
or looking at your description .. ((Remote wires = Neutral in(Black) white ceiling wire, Live In(Black) blaxck ceiling wire, Light out(White) blue Fan/Light wire, Fan out(White) black fan/light wire, Common(White) white ceiling and white fan/light wires.
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