Changing a light I noticed this configuration of black and white from the romex to the switch coupled, together with black from light fixture. And ground from the switch coupled with the white neutral. I don't really understand what is going on here, usually I have seen black/black and white/white. Other romex goes to the fan and is not attached to anything.
So are you saying you have a switch for lights and a switch for fan for that location ?
If yes..... that is incorrectly wired. There aren't enough wires going down to the switch for two switches. Currently they are using the ground as a neutral. Bad idea.
Yes, two switches. The unused romex you see in the picture goes from the light to the fan and deadends there. I have yet to trace the switch cables to their ends but looks like I will need to .
Last edited by chadw3; 12-14-20 at 10:24 AM.
Reason: wording
You've got some serious issues there.
The most glaring I circled in red. Using the white/neutral wire as a neutral and a ground.
With your current cabling...... you have enough wires there to bring power to that box and to operate one switched device. The bare ground wire cannot be used as a current carrying wire.
I have some recessed lighting and I put the retrofit LED trims on them. I did this about a year ago and they have worked perfectly for over a year.
Now all of a sudden some of them are starting to flicker and go bad. Within the past week, at least 5 of them have gone bad. I took one of them out and as a test I tried it on different lamps throughout the house and I still get the flickering.
This is a severe flickering almost like a strobe light. Some lights on the same circuit/switch are still acting perfectly fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
The fan is working fine on my ceiling fan. But the lights will not come on... when I pull the chain I get a click, but nothing, not even a flicker. Since the chain is getting a good solid click which I can hear when I pull it, I'm assuming that the fan light switch is okay.
I've attached a link to photos of my ceiling fan and it's wiring. A couple things I need to explain: the black box in photo number two, you can read the print on it if you enlarge the picture. Also, in picture number two there are blue and white white wires. They attach to the black and white wires on the piece that the lights are on.
Thanks, in advance if you can help me fix this. If you reply, please keep in mind that I know next to nothing about this kind of stuff, so please explain as if you were speaking to a 4-year-old. I take direction very well.
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