Thread: Ceiling Fans / Installation?

Originally Posted by buad hai

Originally Posted by DrAndy

OK thanks

I'm having a hard time believing you're either too young or too naive to recall how wheels were balanced a few decades ago....

I may be too old to remember

but I didn't know they did it like that

Do not use the existing wiring for the central fluorescent light you need to run separate cables?

DAVE

From what I've seen so far there's no need to run separate cables. The fan is 75 Watt, so similar power use to a light fixture.

Of course if the fan has lights too then power consumption will go up again, but I think still within regular limits. Compare that to how much power a microwave or even a toaster uses.. Microwave after all you plug into a regular socket powered with regular wires and it easily pulls 750 Watt.. That's ten times what a fan uses.

The only problem might be if the fan dims the lights by reducing the voltage. In this case you shouldn't use fluorescent bulbs (unless you can find the dimmable ones) in the fan's light fixture. Try it with incandescent bulbs first. If pulling the light string causes the bulbs to dim then don't use fluorescent bulbs. If pulling the string just turns them on and off, or turns some on and off, then you can use the compact fluorescent bulbs.

(I think I might have said that better....)