Ceiling Fan expecting 4 Wires

PhoenixFoster

Hi all,

I recently purchased a ceiling fan from B and Q, no remote so two pull cords one to turn on/off the fan and one to turn on/off the light.

My lights electrical light cable from the ceiling has 3 cables black, red and I think yellow/green.

The ceiling fan was expecting 4 cables???

I wired it all up leaving the 4th space empty and when I turned it all on I found that only on the fan was working, I subsquently took the fan back assuming it was broken, just been looking at another fan in homebase and it has the same configruation.

My question is how to Install a ceiling fan that is expecting 4 cables (live, neutal, earth and a light bulb) when I've only got 3 cables coming from the roof.

Cheers

KillerWatt

From what you have described, it sounds to me like the fan & the light have the provision for 2 seperate live inputs.
As you don't have 2 individual live lines, simply link the 2 inputs together and feed them from the 1 live.

diable

KillerWatt wrote: »

From what you have described, it sounds to me like the fan & the light have the provision for 2 seperate live inputs.
As you don't have 2 individual live lines, simply link the 2 inputs together and feed them from the 1 live.

If its the switch live cable then when you walk out of the bathroom and turn the light off you will turn the fan on, it most probably needs a live so the fan runs on the timer once you have left the bathroom.

mikey72

KillerWatt wrote: »

From what you have described, it sounds to me like the fan & the light have the provision for 2 seperate live inputs.
As you don't have 2 individual live lines, simply link the 2 inputs together and feed them from the 1 live.

Well, you haven't seen it, you don't know what type of light it is, you don't know how the terminals are marked, so you could be right, you could be wrong.
Even so, I'd probably stay on the side of caution and not suggest connecting whatever it is to 240v just yet.
(Just in case the bulb has gone, and it's a link for the earth for example, and the last customer messed it up, re-packed it and took it back)

keith969

Didn't it come with installation instructions?

diable

keith969 wrote: »

Didn't it come with installation instructions?

"slaps forehead " RTFM who would have thought of that, real men don't read manuals ;o)))) after an hour they rummage in the bin to retrieve it though ;o))))

ormus

shown is the detail for a fan only. follow the extra instructions if a light is required too.
the light needs to be on the swiched live wire.

mikey72

ormus wrote: »

shown is the detail for a fan only. follow the extra instructions if a light is required too.
the light needs to be on the swiched live wire.

I wouldn't unless you want to risk electrocuting someone later.
Leaving half a fitting live when it's switched off would be unexpected.