Cephus
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Bought a new house 4 months ago and one of the first things I noticed is that the old owners had used a non-ceiling fan rated plastic box, which had broken. So I took down the fan and planned to replace the box and reinstall it relatively quickly.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Work got in the way and the fan sat in the garage for a couple of months. I had taken a picture of the wiring, but that phone died a cruel death and was replaced, hence I am without a wiring picture.
So today, I put in the new fan-rated metal box, installed all of the hangers, and got ready to rehang the fan, when I noticed that there was no ground at all coming off of the fan itself. This is a modern fan, installed in a modern house, but it has three wires coming out, blue, white and black. The wires in the ceiling are red, white, black and ground. I'm connecting red to blue, white to white and black to black, I'm just a little concerned that there is nowhere to connect the ground to the fan itself. I've searched online and everyone only talks about having no ground in the ceiling, not having no ground in the fan itself. Is this something I should be concerned about or is the white carrying the ground?
And no, I'm not replacing the fan, it matches every other fan in the house. It worked fine before and I'm sure it will work fine again.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Work got in the way and the fan sat in the garage for a couple of months. I had taken a picture of the wiring, but that phone died a cruel death and was replaced, hence I am without a wiring picture.
So today, I put in the new fan-rated metal box, installed all of the hangers, and got ready to rehang the fan, when I noticed that there was no ground at all coming off of the fan itself. This is a modern fan, installed in a modern house, but it has three wires coming out, blue, white and black. The wires in the ceiling are red, white, black and ground. I'm connecting red to blue, white to white and black to black, I'm just a little concerned that there is nowhere to connect the ground to the fan itself. I've searched online and everyone only talks about having no ground in the ceiling, not having no ground in the fan itself. Is this something I should be concerned about or is the white carrying the ground?
And no, I'm not replacing the fan, it matches every other fan in the house. It worked fine before and I'm sure it will work fine again.
Thanks.