How do I connect wires for ceiling fan/light combo w/dimmer switch?
Question:Ceiling has ground, red, black, and green wires. Fan has black, white, and blue wires. Looking at ceiling wires, the green is connected to the ground-the fan had blue connected to black. Hooked blue/black fan to black ceiling and white fan to red ceiling, left green to ground. Light turned on but both switches on fan worked light and fan would not work-so what is the right combo here? Do not have instruction book anymore.
Answers:
Ok if you have a ground, red, black and a green wire in the ceiling more than likely it went this way.. First look behind your switches, you'll have a red and a black going to 1 switch and 2 black connecting onto the other, if its that way, follow these instructions . connect blue from fan to red in ceiling, black to black, white from fan to green in ceiling and more than likely there is a green wire on the mounting bracket, that green wire connect to the ground, if not connect the ground wire onto the bracket with a screw (just wrap it around the screw and tighten it down). What they probably did was made the green wire in the ceiling the neutral wire (which is always white) and thats where alot of people are getting confused when they read this. If you need more help just send me a email, I'm a electrician of 10 years and will be able to help you out with any problem you have.
You would be mad to do this yoruself.
Get an electrician.
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you need a neutral wire in the ceiling. Hooking the white to the red is very dangerous. It should be wired with all white wires connected together, the black fan wire to the black ceiling wire and blue fan wire to red wire. In the fan the black wire is typically the hot wire for the fan and the blue is the hot wire for the light package. The white wire is the neutral for both and green is ground(actually a bond). In the house the wires are typically a common neutral(white), a black switch leg hooked to one switch, and a red switch leg hooked to another switch with common power feeding both switches. So like i said you need a neutral in the ceiling.
nubby is right ,you need a neutral which is a white wire.
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