Lighting, Light Fixtures, Ceiling and Exhaust Fans - Hooking up ceiling fan

Hello everyone,
I am learning to hang my own ceiling fan and having a bit of problem with electrical. The ceiling fans has 4 wires: Black, White, balck&White and Green.

I know that when I connect the Electrical,I'm to match up electrical to the house wiring. The black to black, white to white, green are ground. If that is so, what about the other Black&White coming from the fan. Where does that go to?

Any help would appreciated.

You don't alway match up the wire colours. It depends on what is there already.
The black is the fan hot wire the black/white is the light hot wire. They make them separate so that you can switch the light on/off from a switch and not affect the fan. If you only have three wires then put the black/white with the other blacks. If you have a red wire that might be the switched wire for the light.
Tell about where this fan is going and how you plan to control it. We can help you get it correctly connected.

JoeD, Thank you for your response.

The fan it self has 4 wires including the ground. There's back, white, green and white/black. The fan do not have remote control and its going into an office room with just a standardard light switch to turnoff/on the fan & light. since the ceiling is low i will be using the pull cord on the fan to turn the fan on/off so a seperate switch for the fan and light is not req'd.

The house wiring has ja standard white, black and ground.

I tried hooking the black/white to the black wire and still don't work.. could it be anything else?.. there is power there since I check it with a voltage tester.
The location is to replace the old light. And yes, I went into the attic to place support for the fan.

Any more advice would be appreciated.



ou don't alway match up the wire colours. It depends on what is there already.
The black is the fan hot wire the black/white is the light hot wire. They make them separate so that you can switch the light on/off from a switch and not affect the fan. If you only have three wires then put the black/white with the other blacks. If you have a red wire that might be the switched wire for the light.
Tell about where this fan is going and how you plan to control it. We can help you get it correctly connected.

What do the directions that came with it say?

Did you have all FOUR wires connected properly?

This is an oldfan that was working fine beofre i disconected it from another room.

Yes, I connected the wires correctly. white to white, all 3 blacks together and all ground wires are togetrher.

If you only have black, white and ground at fan then your switch will need to be on for either the fan or the light to work.
Connect ground to ground, white to white. Connec black and black/white to black. Turn on switch and fan and light should work with pull chains.

Before you removed the fan from the previous room, how were the wires connected?

Joed,
Done exactly that and does not work. I've hooked up several fans with the same set-up in other rooms and seems to work just fine. Could it be the fan itself? I'm kind of reluctant to say that since It worked in the other room before I pulled it off. I think my best bet is to just buy a new fan and try it out. Thanks for your help.

racraft,
same as how i'm hooking it up to this room.

Then you need to verify if you even have power at the fan. Test the black wire to ground AND to the white wire. If no power then check the switch. Could be a problem with the wires or the switch could be bad.