I'm with JerryL here. I used to be here daily, but I started some other
projects which kept me busy. This morning was my first visit back to A.H.R.
in 2 years, and I was a little confused by your first response; why would
anyone suggest that? In the other forums i'm on, we just don't feed the
trolls.
Oh, and I have to admit - 4 years ago when I first came to this forum, i
wouldn't have known the answer to that question. I probably asked dumber
questions than anyone else, but how else could I learn?
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I just installed a Ceiling fan in my bedroom and everything ok went
fine
until I tryed to hook the wires up. From the outlet box all I have is
two
wires Black (Hot) and White (neutral). So I hooked Ceiling fan wires
Black
and Blue to the Black wire, and the Fan white wire to the outlet box
white
wire. So What to do with the green ground wires? Well I had no place
to put
it so I hook it up to the White neutral. It works just find, Neutral
and
Ground is the samething right? I don't want to burn my house down.
You hook all the wires to the green. They are all the same; don't know
why they are different colors and names.
I've been following this alt.home.repair for many years. There used to
be very competent people here willing to give correct advice to novices.
Slowly the group changed and the wiseguys came and chased the good
people away. If someone asked a legitimate question there were 10 people
ready to jump on him and ridicule him. The above reply from
was completely uncalled for. A novice asked a serious
question and this idiot Toller tells him to short all the wires out. No
wonder all the competent people left. They didn't want to have to
compete with complete, stupid idiots like Toller. And Toller, you're
just one of many idiots that have diluted and spoiled this group. I hope
one day in life you have to ask someone a serious question and they
asnwer "Go screw yourself".
You don't think maybe he is a troll? If you didn't know the difference
between a ground and a neutral, would you install your own fan?
He could have very well been a troll but if he wasn't and he did what you
told him to do (besides him being stupid for doing it) would you feel ok
about giving him such advice? This is supposed to be a helpful forum yet
people are afraid to ask legitimate questions because they know they'll be
sniped at, laughed at and ridiculed in one manner or another.