Ceiling fans bring an old-fashioned ambiance to a room.
Ceiling fans with attached light fixtures are available in many home improvement stores. They provide a way to moderate the temperatures in the home both in the winter and summer, and light provides brightness to the whole room. A ceiling fan without a light is marginally different from one with a light, but the wiring is almost identical. Two people make the task much easier, with one to hold the unit in place and the other to do the wiring. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Turn the electricity off for the relevant part of the home at the circuit breaker. If you are unsure which breaker controls the outlet, push the master breaker for the entire home to the off position.
2. Reach into the circuit box and pull out the wires. There should be a white wire, a colored wire (often black) and a green ground wire. Strip 3/8 inch of insulating plastic from the end of each of the wires if this has not already been done.
3. Pull out the motor unit from the box and set it on a table where you can see all the parts. Separate out the wires. There should be a white wire, two colored wires (one if there is no attached light) and a green ground wire. Strip 3/8 inch of insulating plastic from the end of each of the wires if this has not already been done.
4. Screw the fan ceiling mount into the circuit box using the provided screws. The wires from the ceiling should dangle through the hole in the center of the mount.
5. Hold the motor unit next to the ceiling mount so you can work on both sets of wire simultaneously.
6. Twist the exposed ends of the white wire from the ceiling and the white wire from the motor unit together and seal the connection with a screw-on wire connector. Twist the connector over the exposed wires clockwise.
7. Connect the colored wire from the ceiling and colored wire(s) from the motor unit in the same fashion. Do the same with the green ground wire from the ceiling and the green ground wire from the motor unit.
8. Push the connected wiring up into the circuit box, keeping the screw-on caps pointing either horizontally or upward.
9. Turn the circuit breaker back on and test that the motor and the light circuit are both working before doing any further work on the unit.
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