How To Wire A Ceiling Fan With Two Switches. As a rule the fan s outer cover is held in place by three or four screws around. Black always hot regardless of switch position red white and bare.
The two core plus ground is the incoming feed to the light fixture. Next connect the two green wires to the ground wire coming from the ceiling which is usually copper or green in color. With a single load typically a further two core would be used to carry the live out to the switch and back by wire-nutting the two together or using a spare terminal on the light fixture and thw switched return and.
In a switch board that consists of single switches there are two terminals for each switch.
The hot wires are either black or red the white wires are neutral and the bare one is the ground wire. There are also lots of really convenient switches that put this dual control into one neat little package. Fan speed would need to be controlled by a pull chain or in some newer fans a wireless remote. This video is about how to wire an existing ceiling fan for separate switches to control fan and light.
