Ceiling Fan Wiring Diagram Red Orange Brown Black. This is the main hot wire which generally comes from the main circuit. The black wire is the hot or power source wire.
The blue wire from the ceiling fan gets connected to the second live wire from the ceiling. In the switch box. Each of these has a black hot wire and each should also have a white neutral wire and a bare ground wire although there may be only one common neutral and one common ground to serve both circuits.
Moreover sometimes this wire can come directly from the main circuit breaker in order to always be on.
The red or striped wire is the hot wire for the lighting fixture of the ceiling fan. Wiring three speed switch into ceil fan wire colors blackpurpleyellow orange. Click here if the cables in your house have brown live blue neutral and greenyellow earth cores. Ceiling rose wiring older cable colours assuming your wiring uses the old core cable colours ie red live black neutral and greenyellow earth then fig1 shows the most common way your ceiling rose will be connected.