How To Wire A Ceiling Fan With Light And Heater

Join the three wires with an appropriately sized wire connector.

How to wire a ceiling fan with light and heater. This wiring diagram illustrates the connections for a ceiling fan and light with two switches a speed controller for the fan and a dimmer for the lights. Use a stepladder to reach the wires in your ceiling and carefully cut away the plastic coating about 2 inches 5 1 cm from the end of the wires with a wire cutter. Take the blue wire from the ceiling fan if the new light kit does not have a switch on the fixture. For this you ll need three twist on wire connectors.

A 12 2 and a 12 3 both going from the unit to the switch with power coming into the switch from the panel. Connect the ground wire from the ceiling fan often this is connected to the fan s hanger bracket to the circuit ground wire and to the electrical box if it is metal using a pigtail wire to connect to the box. Twist the two wipe wires together and put a wire nut over the bare wires to provide insulation. Attach it to the housing with one of the provided screws at each of the machine holes.

Attach the black power wire from the fan to the black wire on the light kit. I have all the wires ran as the diagram shows. Remove the plastic caps that are on the ends of your wires. Secure the pigtail wire to the box with a grounding screw or clip.

Identify your wires and follow the instructions in your manual. Connect the red wire in the ceiling to the black wire in the light kit and the black wire in the ceiling to the black wire in the fan. The second one will be used to connect the two white neutral wires while the third will join the ground wires. Turn the power back on and test the fan.

Wiring up a broan ceiling fan heater light combo. To connect your wires the copper ends must be exposed. Generally you will need to connect the wires of the same color with a wire splice connector sometimes called wire nuts before securing the unit to the ceiling. From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box.

At this point you may connect the unit to your heater if necessary. The first connector will join the black power supply wire from the electrical box to the black and blue wires from the fan. Tuck the wires back into the box. Connect your white wires together and secure with wire nut.

Strip the ends of the wires. The source is at the switches and the input of each is spliced to the black source wire with a wire nut.