Learning how to install a ceiling fan—installing the bracket
Hi! I’m Felix with Michael & Son and here’s my partner Augusto. At this point from the ceiling fan installation, we’re going to install the bracket. Here’s the bracket for your ceiling fan. This is how it comes from the box. You’re going to unassemble it, save all the pieces, you’re going to need it, just loosen them a little bit.
Each ceiling fan is different. So you better read the instructions first, before you do it. In this case, this is pretty straightforward. This is how it looks. So this is your bracket. So you have to go up there. The screws don’t come inside the box. It’s supposed to be in the box already. However, be prepared and get them from the hardware store, just ask them for 832. You better get different sizes. The diameter is 832, that's also the thread. We’re ready, so we’re going up.
If you’ve previously cut the power into the outlet, we turn off the breaker so now we’re sure we’re safe to not handle any live electrical wires. So we see here, the ground wire is the bare copper lead, the black, the white, the red. These two, black and red, are the hot ones. This is neutral and this is ground. The red is used for the light. The black is used for the motor. So in your fan, this is going to be hooked up to the motor. This is going to be hooked up to the light.
This particular fan that we’re installing comes just with two colors of wires, just black and white. This is because internally, we’ve got the receiver. That receiver is going to use the power accordingly because we have the remote control. Most of the fans without remote control come with matching colors. Some of them is blue to match the red. That’s the only change but everything is written in your catalog that comes with the fan.
Here are your brackets. The bracket is supposed to go there. So let's mount it. It goes inside. We’ve got the bracket safe. So, we’re ready to bring the fan up. At this point, we’re going to complete the assembling of the fan before going up and hang it over to that bracket. My suggestion at this point is, leave it in the box. I’m talking about the motor itself. There’s a small part here that can be damaged if you just put it on the floor. So the safest place is where it comes, right in the box, and the same piece of foam where it comes.
Up here, we want to keep installing. This is a specific motor for this fan. This part is unique for this design of fan. In the market you’re going to find endless, different kinds of fans. So each fan is different. Make sure you read the instructions before. In this case, we’re going to install these.
This particular model of ceiling fan works with a remote control. This remote control communicates with the fan by the receiver right inside of the fan. In this case, each part, the transmitter and the receiver has got a code to make sure you’re not turning on your neighbors ceiling fan or another ceiling fan in the same house. So this code got to match with the one in the ceiling fan. I’m going to show you the one in the ceiling fan. It looks exactly the same as the one in your remote control. You’ve got different codes. My suggestion is change the code. The one comes from the factory is all on, four different switches, all on. So just move one of those. In this case, I am going to turn the third off. So 1, 2 and 4 are on, the 3 is off. I’m going to do that the same in the ceiling fan.
This way this is a unique combination between these two. At this point, we’re going to install the downrod. We’ve got the downrod here. We’ve already extend the wires, the wire’s coming here. We pull them inside. We got them all the way there. We’re going to attach it to the fan itself. We’re going to remove the safety pin. This pin is very important. This pin will be inside the downrod, when it gets in here. That way we’re assured the fan is not going to fail from the rod, all set.
Now the final adjustment will be done up there. It is very important that the way to extend the original wires that come from the fan to make it longer enough to reach the top part of the outlet is hire someone qualified to do electrical connections because those connections will be inside the rod. If it fails, you’re going to have a shot circuit right in here. It’s very complicated to get to it.
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