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| Monitor |
Hey all, I have been doing some searching, and it seems I have a unique situation on my hands.
I recently replaced a broken ceiling fan w/ a new hunter fan/light combo. I tested all the elec and hooded it all up appropriately. Light/Fan worked well for several days. Then, when turned off at the switch, it would not turn back on. I flipped the switch and pulled the chains, to no avail. The next day it was working again. This cycle happened several more times, and I thought it might be the switch, so I checked it with my power tester, and it had power from the house, and when the switch was on, it recieved power to the other contact on the switch, so appears to be working normally. I took the light off of the ceiling, and tested it, and it read positive for power. I hooked everything back up thinking it might have been a short, and it worked. A couple days later, it was out again. At this point I decided to replace the switch, since it was my best guess. I replaced it and still have no light. So, I again took the fan off the ceiling, and unhooked it from the power line, and tested the power coming from out of the ceiling, and it was on. Hooked all back up and no luck. Next I decided to take the switch out of the equation, so I disconnected it completely, and hooked both wires together. I still get power at the ceiling fan wire, but no fan/light when I turn it on. My next step is to go into the attic and do a new wiring run and see if that fixes it, but I wanted to get some opinions first. At one point during the fiasco, the pull chain for the light turned the fan on??!?! Also, when I opened the wall plate to access the switch, whoever had wired it previously had the hot black from the house, and the white from the fan lead both hooked to the switch, and the black from the fan lead and the white from the house wire nutted together, so they had it wired backwards before I got here, and my fan ran like that for at least several days before all the trouble started. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Monitor |
8/15/2008 12:20:08 AM |
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| cfanrepair |
My guess is a bad neutral somewhere. It should be wired like this-- hot from house to switch. Switch to fan/light. Fan/light to neutral from house. |
8/18/2008 10:59:36 PM |
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