Wiring Red Black White Light Switch. Use the black and red wires on this switch. The red wire is for the light switch.
Copper or green wire is the ground wire and keeps your fan from experience power surges.
Connect the "switch leg" (white wire with black tape) to the remaining unused terminal screw on Then you'd connect the black power wire to one side of the switch and the black wire from the I have black, red, white, and ground cables coming into the fixture box.
The white wire (neutral) can be Capped and left in. The switch (in most cases) is never switching the grounded (neutral, white) conductor. Wiring your light switches sounds like a headache for another person (a professional electrician, to be more specific), but it can become a simple task when some groundwork is laid out Tie the ground and white wires together.
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