Depending on your fan the wire can either be green or copper in color.
Green wire ground ceiling fan.
The ground wire doesn t carry any electrical current unless there is a problem in your electrical system.
If you have a blue and black wire coming from your household circuit you should have two switches on your wall.
Also avoid using it as the neutral wire despite connecting to the same bus at the main panel.
The wires are black black white and white.
Its function is to keep the device from undergoing power surges.
There is a green ground wire on the ceiling fan mount plate.
The instructions are woefully scant and do not account to the 6 wires from the ceiling.
The color indicates it is a ground wire.
The ground wire carries displaced electricity away to reduce the risk of electrical shock if let s say the metal parts of the ceiling fan or any other appliance or part attached to your electrical system becomes accidentally charged.
Typically a green wire is attached to your fan bracket and the other green wire is attached to the fan itself.
Now coming out of the fan are 3 wires and the green ground.
There should be two white wires from the ceiling fan kit and one from the box third connect the two green wires from the ceiling fan kit to the exposed copper wire with a wire nut.
Leave the green or copper wire that s coming out the ceiling unattached for now.