el stumpo
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Ok,
I'll admit I'm more of a breakanic than a mechanic, but sometimes I get things right. The ceiling fan pull thingys broke in our bedroom, so we ended up getting a new ceiling fan (yes, they can be replaced, more coming up). I installed the new ceiling fan and thought, I'm da man!
Then the dreaded, "Hey, let's start fixing other things too!" feeling comes along. I decide my daughter's room needs more light, so I replace the pull thingys in our old ceiling fan and start to take hers off. Fans blades come off... light assembly... this is a breeze, it's going so smoothly! I can't believe my luck! I'll be able to make the 1PM football games!
I remove the motor part and wiring, it was tight, so I removed the wiring nuts and everything comes off. Quick inspection and then....
I see the free black wire (good), I see the white wires connected in the junction box with one free wire(so far so good), then I spot the rest of the black wires in the junction box crimped to a white wire
The lone black wire's matching white wire is connected to the group of black wires. I don't get it.
I'm sure there's a reason for it.... but I thought all black wires go together and all white wires go together...
I did look online and read something about it could be 'hot' but I don't know. Here's a pic of the wires. Can someone tell me how I should wire the ceiling fan without burning down the house?
I'll admit I'm more of a breakanic than a mechanic, but sometimes I get things right. The ceiling fan pull thingys broke in our bedroom, so we ended up getting a new ceiling fan (yes, they can be replaced, more coming up). I installed the new ceiling fan and thought, I'm da man!
Then the dreaded, "Hey, let's start fixing other things too!" feeling comes along. I decide my daughter's room needs more light, so I replace the pull thingys in our old ceiling fan and start to take hers off. Fans blades come off... light assembly... this is a breeze, it's going so smoothly! I can't believe my luck! I'll be able to make the 1PM football games!
I remove the motor part and wiring, it was tight, so I removed the wiring nuts and everything comes off. Quick inspection and then....
I did look online and read something about it could be 'hot' but I don't know. Here's a pic of the wires. Can someone tell me how I should wire the ceiling fan without burning down the house?