"Greg Pepin" wrote in message
oups.com...
Renovating the extra bedroom in the house and am replacing an older
ceiling fan with a newer fan. Kind of stumped about the wiring, and
thought I'd post here and give a shot at it. Instructions with the fan
kit were useless. I know the wires in the box are copper(not sure if
this matters).

Scenario:
Box in ceiling: 3 wires. Red, Black and white. Ground on fan housing.
Fan/light: 3 wires. Blue, Black, white and ground.

Connected green to green and white to white. So far, so good. Manual
says to connect blue and black on fan side to black in box. That leaves
a red left, which I'm not sure what to do with. From what I can tell,
it's a hot wire(and logically red means hot).

This is probably an extremely simple thing, but it's frustrating the
heck out of me... Can anyone help me out? Thanks for your help in
advance.

-greg


Assuming everything was wired properly before you started:

Scenario:
Box in ceiling: 3 wires. Red, Black and white. Ground on fan housing.
Fan/light: 3 wires. Blue, Black, white and ground.

white to white
red & black are both hot if you have two switches connect to fan blue/black
Your choice of colors.

You did not mention a ground wire in the box so connect fan ground wire to
the metal box or cap it off. If ground on fan housing meant you have a bare
ground wire then connect it to the fan ground wire. Older lighting circuits
did not always have a ground at ceiling fixtures. Best not to connect it to
white.

If you don't have a light kit the blue wire is the unused one normally.
Just cap it and one of the two hot wires.

There I made that almost as the third world printed directions.

Colbyt