How to Wire Up A Ceiling Fan( With Pictures)

This article will show how to connect up a ceiling fan's electricity. This article does not explain how to do the rest of the ceiling fan installation.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Ceiling fan
• basic tools

1. 
   Wall switch

   Turn off the power that feeds the switch that you will be dealing with. This picture shows the basic electrical connections to the wall switch. This switch controls both the fan and the light. The ceiling fan also has some pull chain switches which additionally controls the fan motor and the light separately.

2. 
   This just shows the three wires leading into the motor.

   One thing that is always confusing is the fan connection has three wires, a white wire, a black wire and a blue wire. Now, what to do with the blue wire. Just connect it to the black wire. It feeds the light down below. There is generally a flag connected to the blue wire telling what to do with it but sometimes it's missing.

3. 
   Conecting up the light

   When you get to connecting up the light part there is opportunity to get confused again because you have to deal with the blue wire coming out of the fan motor. Well, just connect it up to the black wire on the light. And, of course the white wire connects up to the white wire.

Tips & Warnings

• After you are finished connecting everything up take a minute to go back through and make sure all of the connections are correct. Otherwise you might blow a fuse when you turn the power back on.
• Be sure the power is turned off before working on anything electrical.