Lighting, Light Fixtures, Ceiling and Exhaust Fans - Ikea ceiling light fixture mounting

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dwatlanta
11-26-08, 09:58 PM
I recently bought an Ikea Lotorp ceiling light fixture to replace a ceiling fan. I have two problems. Please help!

1. The existing ceiling fan mounting bracket doesn't work with the new light fixture. The fan "bar" bracket is way too big for the light fixture. The light fixture doesn't come with a mounting bracket. It has two mounting screw holes and two screws. How do I attach the fixture to the ceiling wiring box?

2. In the ceiling wiring box, there is one red wire, one bare copper wire, two white wires (capped together), and two black wires (capped together). The room has two swithes that contoled the ceiling fan. The new light fixture has one white wire, one black wire, and one green wire. Which wires should I splice together?

Thanks for your help!


John Nelson
11-27-08, 01:52 PM
2. In the ceiling wiring box, there is one red wire, one bare copper wire, two white wires (capped together), and two black wires (capped together). The room has two swithes that contoled the ceiling fan. The new light fixture has one white wire, one black wire, and one green wire. Which wires should I splice together?How was the old fan connected? When you say "two switches", do you mean one switch for the fan motor and the other switch for the fan light, or do you mean a pair of 3-way switches that both did the same thing?

I can't be sure with more information, but I'll make a preliminary guess. Most likely you should leave the two black ceiling wires connected together, and not connect them to the fixture. Connect the two ceiling white wires to the new fixture's white wire. Connect the ceiling red wire to the fixture's black wire.

Connect all bare and green wires together.

dwatlanta
11-27-08, 09:31 PM
Thanks for the reply. Both wall switches do the same thing. If one switch turns the fan on, then the other switch can turn it off.


John Nelson
11-27-08, 10:09 PM
Use my guess.............