You can install a ceiling fan with a light in a room with a single light switch with a simple wiring trick. Splice the source neutral to the white cable wire.
Wireless Light Switch Ceiling Fan Wiring Diagram Wiring Diagram
How to wire a fan to a light switch. Separate switches for bath fan and light from single switch in a 1960s house duration. Connect the ground wire from the ceiling fan often this is connected to the fans hanger bracket to the circuit ground wire and to the electrical box if it is metal using a pigtail wire to connect to the box. Secure the pigtail wire to the box with a grounding screw or clip. Connect the black fan cable together with the black light wire and the black switch wire and cover them. Make sure the box is rated for a ceiling fan. Wire the source ground to the ground wires for the switch and the fan.
To do this method the wire from your wall circuit to your light has to have 3 wires. In this arrangement a light fixture and exhaust fan are wired to the same source. Using wire strippers peel an inch of insulation from the end of the black and white wires. Connect a light and a fan to a new switch. Locate the switch cable which must be glued through the top or side of the box that serves the fan or the light. At the fan splice the wires matching the colors of each and connect the ground wire to the grounding terminal.
Connect black fan wire to the black ceiling wire. Join the three wires with an appropriately sized wire connector. Second remove the light fixture in the room. First turn off power to the fixture at the electrical panel. Your power supply line the black wire should be feeding both switches and those switches power the fan black or the light blue. Connect the blue wire to the red wire.
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