What do you do with the red wire when installing a ceiling fan?
What do you do with the red wire when installing a ceiling fan?
A red wire up in the ceiling fan junction box usually indicates that the wiring has been installed which provides separate switch for the light and a separate switch for the fan motor. If your ceiling fan does not have a light fixture, then simply cap off the red wire and attach the fan motor to the black wire.
Does the red wire connect to black or white?
Sheathed cable with a red wire always is accompanied by a black wire, a white wire and a bare wire. Very old homes may have cable that excludes the bare wire.
Where do the red black and white wires go on a light switch?
Attach the white wire from the light fixture, which is now the hot wire, to the nut at the top right of the switch. Attach the red wire from the light fixture to the nut at the top left of the switch. Connect the bare copper wire to the green nut at the bottom left of the switch.Nov 4, 2019
How do you wire a ceiling fan with 3 wires?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBov0QxB7x0
Do I need the red wire for ceiling fan?
In order for the light to be controlled by its own switch, the wiring between the switch and the fan unit needs a fourth wire, a red wire, to carry power to the light kit.
Can you connect red and black wires together?
Red Electrical Wires These wires are typically used for switch wiring as well as the interconnection between smoke detectors hard-wired into the power system. You can link two red wires together, or you can link a red wire to a black wire. Since red wires conduct current, they are considered hot.Apr 8, 2019
Can I connect red and black wires together ceiling fan?
If you have black and red wires in the ceiling fan power box, the are likely from the same branch circuit source, one black wire in the wall switch box, and then black and red from the double switch to the fan ceiling box. This way you can run the fan and the fan light kit separately. Don't connect them together.
Does red wire go to black or white?
Red wire always goes with meat and white goes with poultry and fish. In North American house 240 vac wiring the White is ALWAYS neutral, the Black is Always hot and Red is the other hot wire.
Can I connect red wire to white?
In the US, the answer would be no, even though I am reluctant to answer this. White is not aggressive. White is neutral, black is 120, green is ground, and red is the other phase of the mains into your house.