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  • Mar 12, 2012, 07:03 PM
    sgr924
    Ceiling fan 3 way switch
    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?
  • Mar 13, 2012, 07:46 AM
    Stratmando
    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?
  • Mar 13, 2012, 08:30 AM
    sgr924
    So I would wire like this:
    Ceiling: black, red to fan black and blue
    Ceiling: white to fan white
    Ground to ground
  • Mar 13, 2012, 08:52 AM
    Stratmando
    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.

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