Top Notch Wire Fan And Light To One Switch

By splicing the ground wires you don t have to cover them but.

Wire fan and light to one switch. Flip on the circuit breaker and turn on the switch to test. With single switch wiring power to the fan is controlled by a standard single pole wall switch like a regular light switch. Locate the switch cable which should be sticking through the top or side of the box serving the fan or light.

The neutral from the source is connected directly to the neutral terminal on the light and the source hot is spliced with the white loop wire. Both of these wires connect directly back to the fixtures. The white wire is marked black on both ends to identify it as hot.

The wiring trick that lets you wire a ceiling fan with light to one switch. Connect the white wires in the same way then repeat with the ground wires. This circuit is wired with a 2 wire cable running from the light to the switch location.

When you splice ground wires you don t have to cap them but it s still a. Splice the black wire from the fan together with the black wire from the light and the black wire from the switch and cap them. I also used a diagram picture thanks for watching.

The ceiling fan will have a black wire and another non white wire. In both switch box and fan light box all grounds should be connected wire nut together. Most new ceiling fans can be wired to either a single switch or a double switch.

Connect the black fan cable together with the black light wire and the black switch wire and cover them. That s usually the hot wire for the light. Cut one 6 inch piece of 14 gauge thhn solid black wire using the wire cutter strippers.