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This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are a coupleseveral problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
  3. There's another junction box somewhere in this scheme that's doing something odd. You'll want to find it before doing further fiddling with the circuit.

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are a couple problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are several problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
  3. There's another junction box somewhere in this scheme that's doing something odd. You'll want to find it before doing further fiddling with the circuit.
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ThreePhaseEel
ThreePhaseEel
  • 86k
  • 32
  • 143
  • 238

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are severala couple problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
  3. There's another junction box somewhere in this scheme that's doing something odd. You'll want to find it before doing further fiddling with the circuit.

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are several problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
  3. There's another junction box somewhere in this scheme that's doing something odd. You'll want to find it before doing further fiddling with the circuit.

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are a couple problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
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ThreePhaseEel
ThreePhaseEel
  • 86k
  • 32
  • 143
  • 238

This white wire feeds a switch loop that provides power to the switch for the fan. Unfortunately, there are several problems here:

  1. This white wire needs to be tagged with black tape to mark it as a hot
  2. It's not clear where the neutral comes from, but it's clearly not coming from the same box as the hot. This is at minimum a 300.3(B)/310.10(H) violation due to the wayward neutral (and a great way to screw up things sensitive to magnetic fields), but may also be a much more egregrious violation due to someone abusing the ground as a neutral.
  3. There's another junction box somewhere in this scheme that's doing something odd. You'll want to find it before doing further fiddling with the circuit.