[thesisko]

I just installed a new Hunter ceiling fan and had a question about acceptable wire placement. The manual says to push all wires up into the outlet box, but it's a pretty tight space. I put the ground wire and the white wires into the outlet, but for the time being I left the black wires in the canopy area. I was wondering if that could cause any problems, or would I be better trying to jam the black wires up into the box with the others?

[wally1937]

As long as you have good tight connections with wire nuts, "stuffing" them into the box should be OK. Sometimes I will wrap the wire nuts with electrical tape to make sure they don't come apart before stuffing, in such a situation. Leaving the black wire in the canopy area is OK too if it is not exposed

[stanfortyman]

In cases like this the canopy area is considered the same as the box.

[ceilingfanrepair]

I leave them in the canopy in these situations, but tucked up near the box so that if anything moves around they are not affected.