I was installing a ceiling fan today and all was going well until I was turned on all the breakers and started to screw in a plate cover on the ceiling fan. One of the black wires got pinched and I guess hit the some metal and cause a spark and a pop. Now the black wire has no current according to my voltage meter. I also put in a ceiling fan control switch as well and it worked until the spark happened. My white wire has current at the light switch box but not at the ceiling My black wire has no current now at the light switch box or ceiling. Everything else in my place on the breaker has power so i dont think it blew a fuse nor did the spark trip my breaker

The house I moved into had a ceiling fan in the bedroom that was hooked up to a dimmer light switch. This worked fine for the lights, but the dimmer made the fan motor extremely touchy. There were actually two light switches in the wall (one dimmer, one "normal"), but once I took a look I found the normal switch wasn't even hooked up at all. For now, I disconnected the dimmer switch and put everything on the normal switch so that the fan works properly. Currently the dimmer switch is disconnected. What I'd like to do is split it so the fan motor is toggled by the normal switch, and have the lights controlled separately on the dimmer. I'm a complete beginner at this type of stuff, so I took some pictures and drew up a basic diagram. Most of the wires are black and they're all joined into a weird little connection (see the picture). They appear to be tightly crimped in there because I can't just pull them out. One black wire comes out of that connection and into the switch. There is a purple wire coming down from the ceiling that goes into the other connection on the switch. The light and fan both work at this point, but no dimmer. There is also an orange wire coming from the bottom that appears to be unused. It's just sitting there with electrical tape over the bare end. Finally, there are some white wires that don't seem to be connected to any switch but there aren't any "lose" ends that I'm seeing. Alernatively, I wouldn't mind if I could just somehow get the fan to be "always on" and not connected to a switch. I can always just use the pull chain to control it. If this would make things way easier, I'm up for it. I assume I need to split the black wires, and possibly use the orange one to power the other switch after I split them? Please lead me in the right direction! [ATTACH=CONFIG]3279[/ATTACH] [B]Photos of the actual wiring: [URL="http://imgur.com/a/eZaKi"]Ceiling fan light switch - Imgur[/URL][/B]