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sgr924
Mar 12, 2012, 07:03 PM
I trying to replace a ceiling fan that someone else had taken down. The room has two switches at each entrance for starters. The fan has a light kit that slip attaches to the bottom of the fan. I want the switch to operate the fan/light. The ceiling has 4 wires, 1 black, 1 white, 1 red and one ground. The top of the fan has 3 wires, 1 black, 1 blue, and 1 white. I would like to know what wires go together. I put the blacks together, the whites together, the grounds together and the red and blue together. Got the light to work but not the fan. There wasn't a manual in the box. Would you happen to know what goes to what? I don't want the light and the fan to work separate from one another, one switch to turn fan and light on is fine. Got a clue?

Stratmando
Mar 13, 2012, 07:46 AM
Take the black(fan) wire on the fan and connect with the blue(lights wire)and red wire. Both will work together.

I would have thought with the fan on the black wire, that the fan may work by pull chain?

sgr924
Mar 13, 2012, 08:30 AM
So I would wire like this:
Ceiling: black, red to fan black and blue
Ceiling: white to fan white
Ground to ground

Stratmando
Mar 13, 2012, 08:52 AM
No connection with the black, connect the black and blue from the fan to your red wire. White to white, and ground to ground. Both light and fan switch together by 3 ways.

OR, if that black wire at the ceiling is always hot, connect to the black on fan so the fan will work by pull chain and the lights will be on 3 ways.