So here's the deal: When I moved into the house we had a ceiling fan over the dining room table, the house came with it. Said fan has a light fixture in it. Light worked off the switch, fan worked independent of switch on pull chain (switch could be off, light off, but could have fan on if desired by pulling chain). This evening the wife and I decided to get rid of the ceiling fan and replace it with a standard, hanging light fixture. I went to take the fan down and discovered two separate bundles of wiring, each with one black, one white and one bare copper. I know the blacks to be hot, the whites to be neutral and the bare copper to be ground. I was not able to see exactly how everything was wired together with the fan as the wires pulled out from the wire nuts as I dropped the fan down (darn thing is HEAVY). I made the educated guess that one of the bundles was the "always on" wire for the fan and the other was the switched wire for the light component. Now the problem: I can't get the darn light to work right. I can wire it to the "always on" bundle and when I flip the breaker it comes on but of course the switch will not do anything. If I wire it to the switch bundle and flip the breaker there is NOTHING, regardless of switch position. If I wire both "hots" to the hot wire on the new fixture and both neutrals to the neutral fixture wire the breaker will throw itself when I go to flip it. I [B]have not[/B] tried the following: Always hot + switched neutral Both hots + switched neutral Always hot + both neutral I really don't want to have to pay an electrician to come out and install a dining table light for me but I am stumped and the wife made me quit since it was 11:30 PM.

Hi all, I live in an older bungalow, I'd say 40+ years and want to install a couple of ceiling fans with light. I removed the original light from the ceiling and it only has 2 wires. A black one and a white one. The current light switch (on the wall) is a single switch wiring. The ceiling fans have an extra green one. What do I do? Many thanks! Nathalie :wall: