I recently took out my old ceiling fan, and now there is a Black, Red, And White Wire hanging from the ceiling, I bought a track light that has a box with a Green, White, and Black wire in it. Which wires am i supposed to connect,It's for the light Switch, and I'm not sure when the house was built, its a Reading, PA Row house.
connect white to white, black to black and put a cap on the white one, and the green one goes to a screw in the light box.
This is really simple... The RED is the HOT WIRE for one of the two switches The BLACK wire is a hot Wire for the other of the two switches. The WHITE is the RETURN for both and of course the BARE COPPER WIRE is the ground. So... terminate the red.. Connect black to black, white to white and copper to copper. The switch that controlled the BLACK circuit will now run the track lights.
It looks like you had a fan and a light, with separate wall switch controls. The black was the fan and the red was the light (or vice versa) and the neutral for both. Connect the black to black, white to white and cap off the red one and turn on the switch. If the light doesn't work, switch it off again (at the breaker, silly), connect the red ceiling wire to the black wire of the light, cap off the ceiling black wire and try again.
Black and red are both hot wires; green is ground and white is neutral. Connect the black wires together and cap off the red one. This extra wire, the red one is for a wall switch. Connect the white wires together (neutral) and the green can be attached to the frame (ground wire). This is of course if the ceiling was wired right. If it doesn't work, switch the black to red capping off the other black wire. There should be directions with the new fan?
One wire is switch hot. You'll have to test to determine which wire it is.
