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    May 26, 2013, 05:55 PM
    110 to 220
    A hot and a neutral coming out of the box as tested . Hook up the fan . The fan does not function . Test the wires while it is hooked up. Wires test 220 . How is this possible?
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    May 26, 2013, 06:02 PM
    The hot was tested off the box and the neutral . Everything was correct until it was hooked up
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    May 26, 2013, 06:05 PM
    Three 45 year electricians . Very good electricians could not figure it out yet. But they also did not spend a lot of time on it so far.
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    May 26, 2013, 06:06 PM
    Can any of you thugs come up with an answer. Just joking.
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    May 26, 2013, 06:08 PM
    That's probably a very tuff one over the internet.
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    May 27, 2013, 05:17 AM
    That's probably a very tuff one over the internet.
    Uh, yeah.

    You say "the fan". That is pretty vague for us to figure out.
    I can only assume an open neutral somewhere on a multi-wire circuit.
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    May 27, 2013, 11:19 AM
    Test each wire to ground and tell us what you get
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