Timeline for Crazy wiring issue
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 17:21 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | Is there only one cable in the ceiling box, i.e., one black one white and one ground, all in one cable? Or is there more than one cable coming into that ceiling box? | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 16:20 | answer | added | Ed Beal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 14:31 | answer | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 14:18 | history | edited | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 14:11 | answer | added | user107060 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 13:45 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | Can you post photos of the insides of all boxes involved? | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 13:22 | comment | added | Ecnerwal | Did you take a picture of the wiring you took apart before you took it apart? You should have. Just about guaranteed one of the white wires was not connected to the others. Which one matters, a lot. When dealing with old switch loops I mark those with red tape (they should have been marked red or black when installed, but rarely is that the case.) | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 12:05 | comment | added | Jim Stewart | When you wired up the fan did you act under the belief that white always connects to white and black to black? This is not true. The fact is that all neutrals are white, but white can be used to carry hot to a switch. And formerly white was often used for a switched hot from a switch to a light fixture. | |
| Sep 15, 2019 at 9:40 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 15, 2019 at 9:39 | history | asked | Joey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |