On Apr 20, 7:33�pm, "RBM" wrote:
"Aaron Eel" wrote in message

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On Apr 20, 7:05?pm, Aaron Eel wrote:





Hi one and all

I am having a little problem. Last night I turned on the wall switch
that activates my ceiling fan / 60 watt light in my daughter's room.
The light bulb popped out with a blue flash. No big deal right? I went
and got another bulb but it didn't work either. I tested it in another
light and it worked fine. I tried a second new bulb and it too did not
work but worked fine elsewhere. Both the light and the fan are
controlled separately with pull chains. There is a single wall switch
that provides power to both. I have been leaving the fan chain in the
off position because one blade broke off a month or so ago. The light
chain was on the on position when I turned on the wall switch.The fan
works fin by the chain and the wall switch.
?I had a neighbor test the wiring right up to and including the inside
of the light reciprocal with a voltage tester. Each step of the way
the tester read 110 red for good. Even on the tab where the light bulb
makes contact inside the bulb socket. It turned red when the chain was
on and off when the chain was in the off as well. What gives here? How
can the tab that the bulb touches have power but none of the bulbs
will work?

Thanks for your help everybody! Thanks!
Ehrin

It wasn't made very clear in my first letter but the fan works ok both
by the chain and by the wall switch. it's only the light thats acting
weird.

Ehrin

You're tester presumably proved that you have the hot leg at the socket, but
you need a neutral as well. The flash could have opened the neutral
conductor. You need to use a tester with two leads. Touch one lead to the
socket shell and one to the tongue, but it's probably easier to just replace
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Hi guys

First let me offer my thanks to both of you for your answers. Thank
you. Jim, as to the disposition of the tab, the tab is out and making
contact with the contact point on the bulb. I can feel that myself.
The neutral thing was tested just like you said, RBM. After making
sure the light chain was on (by testing the hot line like we did
before) the red pointer was made to touch the tab in the socket and
the black made to contact the inner aluminum looking threaded socket
lining I guess you might call it. No red light. What does this mean?
What part of the deal do we need to replace? Can I just replace the
bulb socket or is it something up in the fan? Is it dangerous to leave
it off but hooked up? And does this problem extend back into the
writing of the house? Remember, the fan part works fine. We took the
wall switch out yesterday and got no red light signal out of that
although I'm not sure we touched the right things then. This was
before I learned that the fan part worked. I even touched both the
wires together that go to the wall switch and not even a spark. I
touched them as well and no shock even. I know I did that part right!
I did receive a shock today from touching the two wires between the
fan relay in the base of the fan and the light socket. There was a
splice point and we undid the wires there to test and I inadvertently
touched them and got a shock at some point. I don't know why I didn't
get a shock off of the wall switch wires though. Electricity is very
strange.

Aaron Eel
(Ehrin)