Ceiling Fans

Archive for May, 2009

A bracket just broke off my Hunter Ceiling Fan and can't find where to get one. I tried Lowes and Home Depot with no luck for Hunter. I also tried online under Hunter and a few other links with no luck. Any ideas anyone, other than buying a new fan?

ebay or yard sale

Hi all. I recently purchased a home w/pre-installed Ceiling Fans but no lights. I am trying to add lights.

I purchased a lighting kit, got instructions from the Lowe's employee…read the instructions when I got home and connected the b/w wires from inside the fan that said "for lighting kit" to the b/w wires from the light kit.

Plugged in a bulb and hit the switch….. No light. Fan works just fine.

So, I took the lighting kit to the other room…made the connections…flipped the switch and still got nothing.

I tried this with 2 different brands of lighting kits as well.

I called Lowe's and checked all diagrams and it appears I've done it correctly but still have no light!

Suggestions, recommedations, help?

Since there was not a light originally on the fan. The electrician probably did not wire up the light in the ceiling box. Take the ceiling cover off of the fan and look at the wiring. There is another wire "usually a blue one" and twist it together with the black wire coming from the fan to the hot wire "usually black" in the ceiling box.

How do I wire this ceiling fan? There are two house wires coming from ceiling. One is white, and the other is black. There are three wires on the fan: One is white, one is black, and one red.

I understand that the ceiling white wire is Ground and that the ceiling black wire is hot. So, I hoped that the celing fan wires would be both hot; however, it seems like the fan itself doesn't match colors with housing standards. I can make the light come on but not the fan.

There is one light switch in the room that will be operating the fan/light (the fan has a light on it). I wired the white wire to the white wire, and the black wire to the black wire. I don't know what to wire the red wire to. Now only the light part of the fan works, the fan does not work at all. Where does the red wire go? I need both the fan and the light to work.

PS:

The ceiling mount for the fan has a screw hold labeled "ground". I am not sure if I am supposed to use that screw hole at all, since I will be us
… will be using the house ground.
I tied the fan's red and black wires to the ceiling black wire and only the light comes on. The fan did not come on and I even double-checked the fan switch and pull string.

One person said to wrap the other wire around the screw but I need to know specifically what the other wire is. Which color?

This house was built in the early 1940's.

Thank you for the help.
If the fan's red and black wire need to go to the ceiling's black wire then it is possible that there is something wrong with the fan. It worked before I disconnected it, but maybe my thumb/turning connector thing wasn't secured tight enough.

Once I have confidence on which wire goes to what I will try again.

Tie the red wire in with the black ones. It goes to the fan. There's two wires so that you could have two switches to turn on each seperately.
Since you only have one switch tie the black and red together, to the hot wire.

I would look closely at the wiring under the light. Possibly there are two neutral wires, spliced to the one running to the top. And a wire pulled out of this splice.
Also some fans have a capacitor tucked in there, which could be n/g. Or maybe the pull chain speed switch, or reverse switch is n/g.