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    Sep 23, 2010, 01:43 PM
    Ceiling fan wiring
    I am installing a harbor breeze ceiling fan. There are four wires in the light box: black, white, red and bare. The fan has black, white, blue and green. It has a light kit, and there's a wall switch. I can connect white to white, black to black, green to bare, but what do I connect the red to?
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    Sep 23, 2010, 02:31 PM

    Is there possibly a second switch in or near this room that also controls power to the box? Do you plan to control the light and fan separtately with wall switches, pull chains or a remote?
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    Sep 23, 2010, 04:38 PM
    Don't connect red to anything. That just allows the fan to be controlled from two switches instead of one. This assumes you have a normal 110volt US wiring.

    For 220volt (unlikely), you connect red to red, black to black, white to white, and green to green (or the ground casing or bare).
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    Sep 23, 2010, 04:56 PM

    Hold up Dano, red is something and this is not safe to assume anything until we know more from the poster. Red could mean a 3 wqay switch or a second switch in the same box. Hasn't been 110 and 220 for quite some time now, I think it went 120 in 1958 or 1970
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