Electrical Normal Ceiling Fan Connection

Connect the white wires neutral wires from your fan and ceiling together.

Electrical normal ceiling fan connection.

Connect the black wires together. Most electrical ground wires are. To connect your ceiling fan to existing wires make sure that you have the right fan hardware and cut off the electricity leading to those wires. The source is at the switches and the input of each is spliced to the black source wire with a wire nut.

This wiring diagram illustrates the connections for a ceiling fan and light with two switches a speed controller for the fan and a dimmer for the lights. Wiring this type of electrical connection looks like this. Lastly connect the blue wires together or the blue wire to the black wire for lights. As you can see it s a simple connection that feeds power to both the fan and optional light kit.

Ul approved ceiling fan boxes are required by code this is for your safety and protection. The ground and neutral wires simply get tied together as you d expect. Ceiling fans should never be mounted to regular plastic or fiberglass light fixture boxes. The following will assist you with your electrical question.

Mount your bracket onto the ceiling and hang the fan on the bracket. Once you do that it s just a matter of connecting the right wires together and properly screwing your fan into the ceiling. From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box. Taking your ground wire and wire nutting those together.