Installing wall fan: which wire goes where?

[Sheryl]

Hope I can get a quick answer as I'm in the middle of doing this:

Had a wall fan repaired and need to hook it back up

Stupidly, when I detached it from the incoming wires I did not make note of which wires went to which.

On the fan it has a grey coated wire and another wire coated grey but with a =black stripe.

The input wires I have to attach them to are black and grey. I am pretty sure the black is the live wire and my guess is that it should attach to the fan wire that is grey with a back stripe but am not sure.

Can anyone confirm?

Thanks!

[Crossy]

With only two wires you will have no problem.

I would connect Black / Grey with stripe, Grey / Grey.

It doesn't actually matter which way round they go, the fan will still go the right way

[Sheryl]

[jacko45k]

The wall fan I installed I plugged into a wall socket. The plug only has 2 pins on it so can go in any way around.

[Transporter]

Can you just let everyone know you fitted the fan and are okay as I think playing around with the wiring and electrics in Thailand are a recipe for trouble and best left to a local electrician for what it costs.

[ozyjon]

Wire the colours any way together,,

WARNING if there is a YELLOW wire

that is the earth wire, it doesn't belong

with the other two, earth = ground, the

stuff you walk on.

[Sheryl]

Can you just let everyone know you fitted the fan and are okay as I think playing around with the wiring and electrics in Thailand are a recipe for trouble and best left to a local electrician for what it costs.

Yes, fitted , working OK and I did not electrocute myself.

Thanks

I don't know much but I do know enough to turn the power completely off before touching the wires and such - which is more than the so-called electricians out where I live seem to.

Every time I or my home has come near to harm from electricity, it has been has been courtesy of the local electricians.

[Dublin]

if it sucks rather than blows switch them around so it blows rather than sucks..

[sandyf]

Can you just let everyone know you fitted the fan and are okay as I think playing around with the wiring and electrics in Thailand are a recipe for trouble and best left to a local electrician for what it costs.

Yes, fitted , working OK and I did not electrocute myself.

Thanks

I don't know much but I do know enough to turn the power completely off before touching the wires and such - which is more than the so-called electricians out where I live seem to.

Every time I or my home has come near to harm from electricity, it has been has been courtesy of the local electricians.

Good policy. When I was young, before the days of neon screwdrivers, it was common practice for electricians to put 2 fingers on the wires to check for power, just had to make sure both fingers were on the same hand.

[KonaRain]

That's how electricians 'feel' the energy.. with their fingers.

Easier in US at 110v.

Aloha, All