Timeline for Switched outlet has open neutral when switch is off
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| Jan 14, 2015 at 1:44 | vote | accept | shadowzen | ||
| Jan 14, 2015 at 1:41 | comment | added | shadowzen | Finally got a chance to look at the switch. This is a dual gang with the other switch running to ceiling fan. It was a mess. Both switches were wired on the neutral with all the hot wires capped together and a neutral jumper between the two switches instead of a pigtail. No grounds on the switches themselves. Four cables come into the switch box but only one is hot. Now I just need to confirm which wire goes where and fix it. Guessing the 4th wire is a pass-through. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:27 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @shadowzen -- what results did you get back from your testing? | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 9:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackDIY/status/553845174980583425 | ||
| Jan 10, 2015 at 6:25 | answer | added | ThreePhaseEel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 21:24 | comment | added | shadowzen | Thanks guys, I'll check this weekend when I get home but the switch being on the neutral wire makes a lot of sense. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 20:25 | comment | added | Craig Tullis | ...just to clarify, the switch needs to break the hot wire, not the neutral wire, so that there is no voltage potential at the outlet when the switch is off. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | rjbergen | Longneck is right, it could be in either location. Won't know until you look. My first guess would be that the switch is controlling the neutral wire rather than the hot wire. Could be a rather simple fix if the hot and neutral are both in that switch box. Could be more complicated if there's more strange wiring. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 18:31 | comment | added | longneck | This could be miswired either at the switch or the outlet. You're going to need to figure out how it's wired so we can tell you how to fix it. | |
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:35 | history | asked | shadowzen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |