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what size cupola? Rough sketch?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/my-lighted-copper-roof-cupola-build-and-install.341644/

 

thanks!

 

Thinking about a 22" square by 30-36" tall.

 

Ok. So I am no electrical wizard by any means, but I have done many ceiling fan/light fixture installs in our homes.

And today I got around to installing the boys ceiling fans. 1st one went just fine. No issues. 2nd one I finish everything, restore power to his room with switch in down/off position. I get back up to his room after flipping breaker on and see his fan spinning? How is that possible? Go back down to basement and the breaker is tripped. For fun I flip it back on and it instapops off again.

I go up and start to isolate by removing just the lights. Restore breaker and come up stairs to find switch in off position and blades spinning. At this point I figure I must have been spacing out and not tied the blue wire to the other hot wires. Well, I disassemble the whole fan (annoying) and my wiring is correct...

Mind you I didn't pay special attention to the old fixtures wiring I just undid it all fast. Is it possible they had some weird wiring I should have noted?

Any help is appreciated.

 

Why does it look like there are two black wires coming from the house wiring (Romex) on the top? Am I seeing that wrong? Is there more than one switch in the room? If so, one switch is meant to turn on the light and one switch is meant to turn on the fan, so they need to be hooked up separately.

EDIT: Now that I look closer I think I see two neutral wires as well.

 

Do you own a multimeter or one of the simple detectors?

 

I wonder if the line side hits the box in the ceiling first and then down to the switch. Do you have two switches at the wall or just one? What color wires at the switches? You don't usually see all the hots tied together unless there is just one switch and you use the pull chain at the fan/light.

 

Digital multimeter

 

I switch In the room. It's tied to white black of cable that also has a red (which I don't recall seeing in ceiling, gonna look after breakfast). Now I also see a 2nd cable in switch box, just black white ground not tied to anything? Weird stuff.

 

The red may be a switched leg for a wall outlet?

 

Forgot to attached above...

 

You need to find out where these go and check for power....

Is that red tied to anything?

 

Pic doesn't show it too well, but red is just cut and hanging in switch box/connected to nothing.

 

Do you have any wall outlets in the bedroom that don't work?

 

Zero volts anywhere in switchbox. I get my 120vac on 1 of the 2 wires in ceiling box, so my guess is the other one up there w/no volts comes to the switch?

 

They all work.

 

Do you know what pair of wires are the line voltage?

I am thinking that the wires incoming on the bottom are line voltage?

 

They may be switching the neutral side. Try disconnecting one neutral wire at a time (at the fan)

 

That would need to be in the WTF thread.......