Wiring A Ceiling Fan With Two Wall Switches

Double switch wiring requires a circuit with four wires black red white and green bare copper.

Wiring a ceiling fan with two wall switches.

For rooms without switches ceiling fan remotes can alleviate the need of using a pull chain. Connect the white wires neutral wires from your fan and ceiling together. Switched lines and neutral connect to a 3 wire cable that travels to the light fan outlet box in the ceiling. If you re replacing an old fan or light fixture and the wiring in the fixture box contains only two or three wires black white and green or bare copper you must use single switch wiring for the new fan.

The fan control switch usually connects to the black wire and the light kit switch to the red wire of the 3 way cable. Connect the black wires together. This video is about how to wire an existing ceiling fan for separate switches to control fan and light. This means that you will have black red white and bare.

The power will pass through the switches and back up to the ceiling fan and light. Screw the fan in place. The ceiling fan with two switches will have two sets of wires. Wiring on ceiling fan light combo with remote and independent single wall switch i bought the hunter avia model 59234 which came with remote to control the light and fan.

With this configuration a 3 wire cable leads from the ceiling fan box down to the wall switch box. Connect the green wire to your household ground wire copper bare wire. Connect the black wire from the ceiling to the black wire from the receiver. At the moment i have it.

One of the switches within the working of the fan is connected to a remote which can be controlled as you may guess remotely. A remote is installed within the fan and one of the two wall switches is bypassed in order for remote access. The hot wires are either black or red the white wires are neutral and the bare one is the ground wire. A remote controlled ceiling fan utilizes the free space within the fan s canopy.

In the switch box the power source is used to connect to either one fan wall switch or it can be used to power a second switch for the ceiling fan light fixture.