Installation Instructions For A Ceiling Fan With Lights

Most ceiling fans today have lights attached.

Ceiling fans sometimes are just fans, but most modern ceiling-fan kits also include lights. This is because the most standard installation method is to hang the fan in place of an existing ceiling light fixture, which means you'll be short a light if there isn't one included in the fan. In most systems, the light and the fan are fed by the same wiring and connected to the same wall switch. Two pull cords then control the two parts separately on the unit itself.

Instructions

1. Turn off the existing light fixture at the wall switch, then cut power at the fuse box. Test the fixture at the switch to make sure the power is dead.

2. Remove the old fixture, accessing it with your ladder and taking out the mounting screws that are holding it to the electrical box in the ceiling. Pull apart the connections of the wires from the fixture to the ceiling, leaving the wire ends hanging from the ceiling box. Normally there will be one black wire, one white wire and one bare copper wire for grounding the circuit.

3. Connect the mounting bracket that came with your fan to the ceiling box, using the provided screws. The screws will go through holes in the bracket that line up with holes in the electrical box. Pull the wires down through the center of the bracket.

4. Assemble the fan on the floor according to its instructions. Don't install the blades yet. You should have a black and a white wire coming out of the top of the unit (the part that mounts to the ceiling).

5. Carry the fan unit up to the electrical box and connect the wires from the fan to the wires from the box. Connect black to black and white to white, using the wire caps to twist the bare wire ends together. Wrap each connection in electric tape. Hook the copper ground wire from the ceiling around the green grounding screw in the fan housing and tighten the screw.

6. Set the fan unit up to the bracket that you mounted earlier, and secure the unit in place to the bracket, using the screws that came with the kit.

7. Put a light bulb in the socket, turn on the power at the fuse box, and test the light and the motor. There will be two pull-cords, one for the light and one for the fan, with both being controlled by the wall switch. When you're sure the unit is working correctly, turn the power back off and install the blades.

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