The 3 bare copper wires twisted middle left
Got it now. It looked like a plastic box, I'd have thought a bare or green would have been connected to the switch "frame" at some point.
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The 3 bare copper wires twisted middle left
You need one of these. Red wire (light) goes to one. Black Wire (fan) goes to the other.
It should come with directions.
I'm thinking to be perfectly safe, he should turn off the power at the breaker panel and turn off the margaritas until the directions make sense.That'll do 'er. Two switches. I'm guessing the directions won't mention starting the project halfway into the margaritas.
But what about our entertainment????I'm thinking to be perfectly safe, he should turn off the power at the breaker panel and turn off the margaritas until the directions make sense.
But what about our entertainment????
3-way? That changes things. The red and black wires are part of the three way system so that there's always power at one switch or the other one across the room. Now looking at your photo you don't have a wire going to your light. The fan and light are probably wired together up in the fan somewhere. I'm guessing you have to turn the fan light on and off from the pull chain on the fan.I'm sober. But we want a dimmer for the light and a switch for the fan so I need to determine which wires far for the 3 way and the ones for light and fan
And since it's 740 I will wait for the weekend to figure this out and continue on my next pitcher.
3-way? That changes things. The red and black wires are part of the three way system so that there's always power at one switch or the other one across the room. Now looking at your photo you don't have a wire going to your light. The fan and light are probably wired together up in the fan somewhere. I'm guessing you have to turn the fan light on and off from the pull chain on the fan.
Good news is you can get a remote control to turn the lights on and off. That way you don't have to mess with the house wiring.
https://smile.amazon.com/HiYill-Uni...&sr=8-2&keywords=fan+light+remote+control+kit
This is what I was trying to say earlier but you did much better.
Zed. All those wires in those boxes are switch wires and commons, not fan wires. You have one hot wire going to the fan and it's connected to both the fan and light connections inside the fan. There is nothing you can do to your switches to isolate the fan and light unless you cut sheetrock and pull some more wires.
3-way? That changes things. The red and black wires are part of the three way system so that there's always power at one switch or the other one across the room. Now looking at your photo you don't have a wire going to your light. The fan and light are probably wired together up in the fan somewhere. I'm guessing you have to turn the fan light on and off from the pull chain on the fan.
Good news is you can get a remote control to turn the lights on and off. That way you don't have to mess with the house wiring.
https://smile.amazon.com/HiYill-Uni...&sr=8-2&keywords=fan+light+remote+control+kit
why don't electricians label anything
I'm all for a 3 way but the switch part sounds a little to kinky for me.Is that a 3 way switch that controls one ceiling fan? OR is that a switch with the fan and light wires running from the switch to the fan?
You need one of these. Red wire (light) goes to one. Black Wire (fan) goes to the other.
It should come with directions.
Correct. Once I determined what he had going on there I corrected myself with a followup post.The stacked switch is a three way switch on top and single pole on bottom, but your wiring diagram shows a stacked single pole switch.
He has three way on both locations so he can't control fan and light separately without running new wire to each wall box.
Do you have a pic of the other switch box that also controls the fan?
My bet is that there used to be a light there and someone put in a fan, or they tried some funky 3 way arrangement with the light, while keeping the fan on or off using the chain.