I am installing a ceiling fan with a dual switch. I have two hot wires coming from switch for the fan and the light. I also have two white wires in the ceiling that are connected to each other. I connected the hot to the fan and the other hot to the light and the white from the fan to the two whites that are connected in the ceiling. The fan is working but the lights are not. Any Help?

If you have a voltage tester, then check to see if the wire connected to the light is 'hot' when the switch in on. If you don't have one, then swap the two hots between fan and light and see if the lights work and then the fan does not.

That should narrow it down to whether it is a problem at the switch, or a problem at the light.

It sounds like it is wired correctly, but that is hard to confirm. How is the switch wired? Try connecting both the fan and light wire to the one hot that worked, to confirm the problem is not with the light itself.

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Originally Posted by ktrippeer

I am installing a ceiling fan with a dual switch. I have two hot wires coming from switch for the fan and the light. I also have two white wires in the ceiling that are connected to each other. I connected the hot to the fan and the other hot to the light and the white from the fan to the two whites that are connected in the ceiling. The fan is working but the lights are not. Any Help?

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I had taken an old fan down and thought that their was a jumper wire from the 2 connnected neutral wires in the ceiling to somewhere but do not remember where. Does their need to be another connection with the 2 connected neutral wires besides the white wire from the fan?

That would depend on how your house is wired. But theoretically speaking, if the fan is working, then the neutral is wired correctly.

The wires coming from the fan are hot so the light fixture is getting electricity. Brand new and light bulbs work fine.

You have a volt meter? You measured both ceiling wires and the both measure hot? What did you measure them against?

Did you try my suggestion from a few posts up?

If we're not on the same page, then pictures would help.

Let's get into the switchbox too and see what we're working with. Do we have the power supply cable at the switch box? Or is it at the ceiling box and using switch loops. Or God forbid, are they using the ground as a neutral conductor because the house wasn't originally wired for separate control of the fan and light from switch box. That isn't that uncommon. Many houses are wired for just a ceiling light. The homeowner then wants to have a ceiling fan with separate switches for the light and fan. Instead of running new cable, they just use the bare ground as a neutral. Ugh.

Is the neutral for the light connected to the neutral for the fan inside the unit? Again with a meter check to see if you have conductivity between the fan neutral and the light feed of the fan.