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Posted by RBM on December 24, 2006, 3:51 pm
You really need to get a real tester. With the switch off, the hot should be
dead
> Hello,
>
> First, thanks to everyone who helped with my arc/short question. I have
> a pretty good idea of what happen now, but still am going to have an
> electrician come out next week and will post the conclusion.
>
> New question. I had a switch that controlled power to a receptacle, so
> a lamp or something could be plugged into it and controlled by the
> switch.
>
> One of the walls in the room was opened and the guys created a fixture
> for a ceiling fan based off the switch that once controlled the wall
> receptacle.
>
> My question is the switch that controls the power to the ceiling
> fixture has a white and a black wire running to it (I think that's ok,
> right?), but does that explain why there is power always to the ceiling
> fixture?
>
> If the switch is off and I take a neon-tester to the black and white
> wires the light barely goes on. If I turn the switch on and touch the
> wires, the light on the tester lights up very bright (as if I stuck
> both probes into a hot receptacle).
>
> Does this sound OK?
>
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