my friend has a ceiling fan thats not working off the switches, after I pulled the switches I noticed 1 switch was a single pole with a 3 wire cable in the box but was disconnected and taped off. the other switch was a four way switch with the 3 wire cable from the first switch and a 2 wire coming in from Im guessing the fan/light combo. I replaced the 2 switches with 3 ways. when I looked in the ceiling there are four 2 way cables coming into the box and one of the white wires was capped off, I reconnected this and when I turned the power back on it blew the fuse, the fan has 3 wires.... black, white, and black and white . all the blacks were connected together and all of the whites with the exception of the capped off one, This does not sound like the proper wiring. someones help with this would be greatly appriciated. Pete From Virginia

I purchased a 10-circuit transfer switch, which I intend to use with my 6000W generator. The plan is to mount an outside receptacle to plug the generator in. The other end, obviously, plugs into the transfer switch. I studied the installation instructions and had some "office" talk with some people and all keep saying I should get an electrician to install the switch. So much for their confidence in my work. Now, I do feel comfortable working around electric stuff and did wire our entire basement when we finished it 15 years ago. We never had any problems with any of the wiring. I do not have to worry about any 220 since I do not plan to make use of anything in the house that might use it during an outage. My question is what is your recommendation and what should I watch out form besides the obvious when working with hot wires