Red Wire Ceiling Fan With Light Wiring

You may come across a red wire when wiring a ceiling fan with 4 wires.

Red wire ceiling fan with light wiring.

It is a hot wire that comes from the ceiling and hooked up to a wall switch. Typically the red wire is controlled by a separate wall switch. Red wire a ceiling fan usually consists of two main parts. The fan and a lighting assembly.

Wiring diagrams for ceiling fans may be found using the links below. A red wire up in the ceiling fan junction box usually indicates that the wiring has been installed which provides separate switch for the light and a separate switch for the fan motor. It s common to use a three conductor cable with a red wire to hook up a ceiling fan and lights so that the lights and fan are controlled by separate switches. The convention is to use the red hot wire for the fan and the black hot wire to control the lights.

The red or striped wire is the hot wire for the lighting fixture of the ceiling fan so if your ceiling fan does not have a lighting fixture it will only have the three other wires mentioned in the following sections. Somanytech brings you the red wire ceiling fan wiring. And switching circuit along with color code of wire in different regional wire codes country specific. Splice the neutrals and grounds together.

The red color on fans is for powering the lights. If your ceiling fan does not have a light fixture then simply cap off the red wire and attach the fan motor to the black wire.