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pickthis · Feb 28, 2009, 09:42 AM

I am more than boggled regarding our ceiling fan issues. We had an existing ceiling fan with light over our dining room table and have just installed another ceiling fan with light in our accompanying living room. There was never any lighting in our living room before now. We drilled a hole and fed the wire (14/2) to the existing dining room light fan box in the ceiling (White, black and copper/ground). When we look up into the ceiling box of the pre existing light/fan we see 4 sets of black and white wires (4x 14/2). When we turn off the power to the pre existing fan/light from our fuse box - the freezer goes out as well as 11 other outlets.

We hooked up all the blacks to the blacks, the red from our existing fan to the blacks as well, the whites to the whites and the grounds were grounded. But, when we turn on or off the wall switch neither light turns on or off on our light/fan.

HELP!!

ballengerb1 · Feb 28, 2009, 10:10 AM

" the red from our exisiting fan to the blacks " where did this red come from? Tere is no red with 14/2

pickthis · Feb 28, 2009, 10:48 AM

There is a red wire from the existing light/fan itself which is attached to the light fan.

ceilingfanrepair · Feb 28, 2009, 02:01 PM

Ok.

1. Hook everything back up the way it was before, and tell us what you see.

2. Are you trying to have the living room fan switched by the same switch as the dining room fan?

3. How many switches control the dining room fan?

pickthis · Feb 28, 2009, 03:27 PM

The green ground wire in the switch box pops very loudly!

2. yes

3. One - controls the light. The fan we always have pulled the hanging pull cord and would like to continue to do that.

ceilingfanrepair · Feb 28, 2009, 03:33 PM

Ok, are you saying if you hook everything up like it was before you added the new fan, it now pops?

If so, you didn't hook something back correctly.