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Fri, Oct 23, 09 at 22:53
| We had a ceiling fan installed this summer. The installer is highly recommended and installs fans all day long. He said that the wire from the ceiling fixture to the wall switch that controls it is actually a neutral, not a hot. This is against anything I was ever taught. The house was built in 1959 and the only changes in that room have been a new celing fixture and a new wall switch. Was and or is this a common practice. We bypassed the switch in the switch box as he said the ceiling would not like a neutral switch. The fan is always wired on, and we use the remote. It is working fine, I am just curious if this was common.
Dale P |
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| If there are only two wires in the switch box... one white, one black... the white is not a neutral but a hot feed to the switch (the black is the switched hot to the fixture). |
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- Posted by petey_racer (My Page) on Sat, Oct 24, 09 at 8:44
| Normel is dead on. In 1959 there is very little chance they used switched neutrals. Switch loops, as he describes, were very popular. |
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| I understand the switch loop, which is what we have. The fan installer claimed that the loop was a neutral and not a hot wire. DP |
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- Posted by petey_racer (My Page) on Sun, Oct 25, 09 at 15:28
| The installer was wrong, which is a sad fact. |
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