How To Install A Ceiling Fan With Two Light Switches

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.

How to install a ceiling fan with two light switches. Take the 2 wires on the switch that controls the outlet off the switch twist them together in a wire nut and push them into the back of the box. Connect the white wire from the ceiling to the white wire from the fan. Now the outlet will always be live.

Once you get done with it things should be running smoothly. Connect the blue wire from the output side of the remote receiver module to the blue wire in the fan. Remove the remote module from the fan.

Connect the hot wire from one of the wall switches to one of the hot wires from the fan unit. I would like to have a separate switch for the fan and a dimmer for the lights. Worst case there are fans that have wireless remotes that you you could install.

Now when one switch is on the remote will control the light. Connect the black wire from the ceiling to the black wire from the fan. Connect the neutral from the ceiling to the neutral s in the fan unit.

Cap the blue wire coming from the fan by itself with a wire nut as it is not needed when wiring for a single wall switch. Splice the white wires together and cap them. To wire the ceiling fixture to the new wall switch first connect the copper grounding wire to the fixture.

A 20-amp switch costs about 3. Now onto the switchs bottom terminal simply attach the hot wire from fan. Fan speed would need to be controlled by a pull chain or in some newer fans a wireless remote.