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From switched receptacle to light question
Hello,
First, thanks to everyone who helped with my arc/short question. I have a pretty good idea of what happen now, but still am going to have an electrician come out next week and will post the conclusion. New question. I had a switch that controlled power to a receptacle, so a lamp or something could be plugged into it and controlled by the switch. One of the walls in the room was opened and the guys created a fixture for a ceiling fan based off the switch that once controlled the wall receptacle. My question is the switch that controls the power to the ceiling fixture has a white and a black wire running to it (I think that's ok, right?), but does that explain why there is power always to the ceiling fixture? If the switch is off and I take a neon-tester to the black and white wires the light barely goes on. If I turn the switch on and touch the wires, the light on the tester lights up very bright (as if I stuck both probes into a hot receptacle). Does this sound OK? |
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