Ceiling Fans

Archive for July, 2009

I got angry while i was sleeping and ripped the chain out of my ceiling fan, and now i want the wonderful air that i loved so much back!! I had a complete stupid moment when trying to fix it and put the wires in wrong, but i don’t remember where they were suppose to go. I think my fan is a Hunter fan, but I’m not sure. The wire colors are blue, purple, and yellow tho, and it’s a 3 speed fan with a lighting fixture built in. Please someone help me figure this out, if not just a random color guess give me something…

You wont have much of a problem with this . Hook them up anyway and see if the fan works the way it should. If it dosent then switch the colours around keeping track of where you have been.

I want to put a ceiling fan in my room, but my ceiling is not wired for a fan/light. I was told to use something called a "swag light". What is this and how does it work? I tried to research it on the Internet, but it just shows a picture of a long chain. Please help - thanks!
An electrician called it a "swag light kit"

Buy a fan. Buy a swag light kit. Buy a ratcheting cross member to hang the fan inside your ceiling. The electrician can put a small hole in your ceiling, then he will slide the cross member up through the hole, turn it sideways so the ends fit between the joists, then ratchet it open until it is very tight between the joists. Your ceiling fan will be mounted to this cross member.
The swag light kit is a cord run through a chain. The electrician will take the cord and connect it to the wires in the ceiling fan. He will then put a couple small hooks (like you use to hang plants from the ceiling) across the ceiling. From these hooks he will hang your swag chain. Plug the swag cord into the wall and the ceiling fan should come on.
Just imagine your ceiling fan that has a really long cord running from the fan, across the ceiling, and down the wall to the receptacle. Swag kits are inexpensive, but make sure the cord is long enough to reach from the fan site across the ceiling and down the wall to the receptacle.

Can someone tell me if what I did will cause any problems. I wired my ceiling fan with two stands of 12-2 wire. In my gang box, I connected all white wires together. I pig-tailed the black from the lead in wire to connect to the two switches. I then connected the black from one switch to the red on the fan, and the black from the other switch to the black on the fan. I connected all three whites at the fan together. Should this work properly? I have not taken power from my breaker to the room yet so I can’t test it. Thanks!
I am using two switches at one location to power the fan and light separately, so no they are not three-way switches. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I gather here, I basicly have wired it as if it was 12-3 wire but have an extra white wire hooked in, but that should not cause any harm.

No one qualified above! Yes, you did it right. You powered each switch with a black or hot wire and then ran the power from each switch to the fan and light kit. Power will run through the switch turned on,, to the appropriate fixture and complete the circuit via your white/neutral wire. Also, wherever you have ground screws, attach your ground wire. No Problem.