Green Wire Ground Ceiling Fan

If you had a red wire coming from your ceiling it is hooked up to your wall switch.

Green wire ground ceiling fan.

Its function is to keep the device from undergoing power surges. Now coming out of the fan are 3 wires and the green ground. If you have a blue and black wire coming from your household circuit you should have two switches on your wall. The color indicates it is a ground wire.

Leave the green or copper wire that s coming out the ceiling unattached for now. The ground wire carries displaced electricity away to reduce the risk of electrical shock if let s say the metal parts of the ceiling fan or any other appliance or part attached to your electrical system becomes accidentally charged. Typically a green wire is attached to your fan bracket and the other green wire is attached to the fan itself. The wires are black black white and white.

The ground wire doesn t carry any electrical current unless there is a problem in your electrical system. The instructions are woefully scant and do not account to the 6 wires from the ceiling. There should be two white wires from the ceiling fan kit and one from the box third connect the two green wires from the ceiling fan kit to the exposed copper wire with a wire nut. Depending on your fan the wire can either be green or copper in color.

Copper or green wire is the ground wire and keeps your fan from experience power surges.