repairing broken light switch

[rgomez912]

Thanks for the help so far. At the moment the room is to dark to see into so I can't give that information, will do so in the morning. The 'ground' is a green wire but also in the back of the mess is an older bare copper twisted wire. Twisted in the sense that there are two wires that are bare and have been twisted together with a yellow top so do not know if this is one of the bare wires you mentioned.

Will hook it up in the morning after getting last bit of feedback

[rgomez912]

Could not find the specs on those units so went ahead on hooking it up. Works like a charm Thanks for the help!! I did not hook up the ground wire since it did not reach the screw on the other side.

[southgeorgia]

Originally Posted by jimboburnsy

This doesn't make any sense. It really looks like you have a rotary dimmer in-line with a buck toggle and I can't say that I know how they would independently control a fan and lights... Honestly, the only thing I can think of to reconcile this is that someone took it apart and couldn't remember how to put it back together, then took a picture and so on...

There must be something happening in that box that the pictures are not showing...

the hot is looped around a fan switch terminal and then continues on to the dimmer. pretty standard practice.


as for the current draw of the ceiling fan, 90% of standard ceiling fans draw 70 watts on high speed.

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by southgeorgia

the hot is looped around a fan switch terminal and then continues on to the dimmer. pretty standard practice.


as for the current draw of the ceiling fan, 90% of standard ceiling fans draw 70 watts on high speed.

He broke it down for me in the next post, I just couldn't get there without seeing it.