Electrical help PLEASE #2...darn fan!!!
Well, fan not so good now!!! I had not put bulbs in the fan yet, had to go buy some. Get them home, nothing. Fan part works great, lights will not come on. Try different bulbs, still nothing. Check bulb sockets, they're hot no matter how many times I pull the chain. No clue what is wrong now...any suggestion?
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Hot as in center contact to ground, or hot as in center contact to the shell (side)? How about the shell to ground voltage?
Center to ground should be 120
Center to shell should be 120
Shell to ground should be 0
The switch can be in either side of the line (hot or neutral) and still work, although it's normally considered a bad practice to place it in the neutral line (and a real beach to work on when the guy that installed it 30 years earlier decided to use a switched neutral on a lighting circuit).0 -
Socket hot all the time? Sounds like a bad pull switch. Hard to believe, being that it's a new fan. But who knows, the last one had a bad motor. Now, the socket being hot and no light? Sounds like a loose neutral to me. Hope this helps. 0 -
If the center point of the socket reads 120v. to the outer shell and the bulbs still don't burn, take your pocket knife and carefully bend the edge of the little brass tab on the bottom of the bulb. I've installed several fixtures where the center of the lampholder does not make contact with the bulb.
BTW, guess where light bulbs are made nowadays? Mexico and Chiny0 -
All these headaches with this fan and it came down to being a faulty tester!!!! After I went around the house with the tester, it was basically saying everything it touched was hot. First fan was bad, this fan however was fine, just had to re-wire it since the red wire was not actually hot after all. Thanks to everyone who helped! Needless to say, that tester is in the trash now, new one works great. 0
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