Ok this has probably been answered. But I have not read all the posts/ I just found this sight while researching what I am about to ask..
I have wired three ceiling fans to plug in to wall receptacles.. as there are no wire to hard wire them in in my home and I am poor and cannot afford an electrician.. all of the ceiling fans have light kits already on them.. they are not hooked up because quite frankly I was not sure how.. with winter coming, I am now thinking I need those lights wired too.
I just do not know where to attach the green wire from the light kit.. to the ground wire for the plug,maybe? I am asking... please help( oh yeah guess you should know that the wire used to wire for a receptacle are only two wires and there is no box the mounting bracket is attacked to the studs directly on the ceiling beam

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Originally Posted by Thereca

Ok this has probably been answered. but I have not read all the posts/ I just found this sight while researching what I am about to ask..
I have wired three ceiling fans to plug in to wall receptacles.. as there are no wire to hard wire them in in my home and I am poor and cannot afford an electrician.. all of the ceiling fans have light kits already on them.. they are not hooked up because quite frankly I was not sure how.. with winter coming, I am now thinking I need those lights wired too.
I just do not know where to attach the green wire from the light kit.. to the ground wire for the plug,maybe? I am asking ...please help( oh yeah guess you should know that the wire used to wire for a receptacle are only two wires and there is no box the mounting bracket is attacked to the studs directly on the ceiling beam

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Green wire is usually ground. Ground it properly and make sure it has contact.

Thereca,

Let's get careful here, please. Inside the light package that is mounted on the fan there should be a blue wire or sometimes a black and white striped wire. This wire should extend from the block on the fan out to the connection point for the fan. Since you only have two wires from the outlet, connect the blue wire to the black fan wire. That should bring power down to the light package.

Please unplug the fan from the outlet prior to working on the fans.

Also please consider calling some of the local churches in your area and explain your situation to them, they may have a parishioner who is an electrician and would be willing to help if he knew you needed the help.

Your ceiling fan lights have a green ground wire? I've never seen that before.

If you don't have a green/bare ground wire coming from your wall plug, just connect the green wires to a metal part on the bracket.

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Originally Posted by ceilingfanrepair

Your ceiling fan lights have a green ground wire? I've never seen that before.

If you dont have a green/bare ground wire coming from your wall plug, just connect the green wires to a metal part on the bracket.

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Ok here goes, I have a ceiling fan with light kit that I need desperately. I live in a place with no over head lighting or preexisting electric in the ceiling.. I need both the fan for ventilation and the light for seeing with out killing myself..
I was told I can wire that to a wire with a plug and plug it in so that when I move I can remove it and fill a couple of holes and not worry from land lord..
So I bought 15 feet of cord to make a swag.. put on the plug.. and wird the fan to the cord. It worked wonderfully.. except the light still won't come on on the ceiling fan..
The cord I used has two wires, the fan light combo has a blue wire, a black wire, and a white wire I put the black and blue and one wire from the cord together.. I put the white wire to the other cord wire..
Now here is where I am stuck. There is a green wire that is listed as ground it is screwed to the mounting bracket and the other end is stripped and open(I capped it)
I assume that is why the light is not working, bcause it did at one time when my ex had it wired in but we broke up and I am not electrically inclined to reinstall this with out asking for help..
Where would I wire this green bare end to? The white >?

In your wall receptacle, you have a hot wire and a neutral that is grounded. The neutral is connected to the wider slot of the receptacle if it has one. You should wire the cord up so the wide blade of the plug connects to the white wire of the fan. Then connect both the blue and black to the other wire of the plumb. The cord should have ribs on one wire to mark it. Since you don't have a 3 prong outlet, there is nothing to connect the green wire to. The third prong is a safety feature added after many people were killed or the house burned down. If the light and fan still doesn't work with it wired up as I said, something else is wrong. Make sure the receptacle has power, and that the fan and light are turned on.

CFR - I just installed a small Hunter Fan in my office and it has a green ground wire. Don

I think you need to make sure the two white tie together --- neutrals

Then the black from the power cord ties to a (black) wire and a (blue) wire

The black wire powers fan -- the blue wire powers the light

There should be a (white) wire at the light that ties to a white on the light

And a (blue) wire that ties to the (black) on the light -- hope this is clear

The (green) wire is ground and ties with green on cord if it has three wires

I doubt switching the wires at the plug made the difference. One of the wires must have been loose which you corrected when you switched it.

Don't worry about the last post if your cord doesn't have black and white wires.

Biggise,

(Personal Opinion) I believe that you are referencing the wrong type of wire and connection. The poster of this thread is using an outlet to feed the fan and light package via an external plug rather than a behind the wall outlet tap to the ceiling.

Basically, she said she went to a store purchased a length of wire with a two prong plug on it and a length of decorative chain and created a swag lamp arrangement. There is no reason to assume that the leads or wires are individually coded as Black and White, they may be but are probably not. More than likely the OP purchased a decorator length of line cord to match the chain and lamp. Just a guess on my part.

Using Labman's process, matching the male end of the plug to the female receptacle of the outlet is better for the OP. This something she can see and easily map out. Asking her to find Black and White on a cord that doesn't have that arrangement is the same as describing light blue to a blind person.

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