How To Wire A Ceiling Light To A Wall Switch

Connecting another light to an existing light and switch is an easy electrical wiring job.

How to wire a ceiling light to a wall switch.

The wiring trick that lets you wire a ceiling fan with light to one switch. Common applications include ceiling or hallway light switches a cellar or attic light a ceiling fan or chandelier or an outdoor patio light. Connect the electrical wire to your source of power using the pliers and wire nuts and fish it through the joists until it reaches the light switch. To do this method the wire from your wall circuit to your light has to have 3 wires.

That s usually the hot wire for the light. The biggest challenge is planning the cable route and running it from the fixture to the new wall switch position. You can wire the new wall light fixture into the existing light and have a single switch. The wiring instructions for your new hunter fan differ slightly based on the type of wall switch and your fan s control system pull chain remote control etc.

Pick a single pole light switch for most applications. That second wire is usually blue or red. Split the incoming hot wire into a y and connect it to a terminal on each switch. A single wall switch controls the power to the fan and light together whereas a dual wall switch has two separate switches one for the fan and the other for the light.

Connect the blue wire to the red wire. Twist those two wires together then connect them to the black or red wire that came out of your. The ceiling light fixture requires a neutral for the light to work and your wall switch box does not have a neutral wire available so additional wiring will be required to obtain the neutral wire from the outlet. Now for the trick.

With single switch wiring power to the fan is controlled by a standard single pole wall switch like a regular light switch. The ceiling fan will have a black wire and another non white wire. Adding a wall switch to a ceiling fixture can be done in a matter of hours. Connect black fan wire to the black ceiling wire.

In the switch box. Secure the wire to the joists with electric staples. If the wall is heavily insulated push conduit through the insulation and then feed wires or cable through the conduit. The fan has power when the switch is on while the fan speed and the light if the fan has one are controlled by pull chains on the fan itself or by a remote control device.

Connect white wires together.