Electrician advice needed-non reef related

Knuckles

Knuckles

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I need some advice on wiring a whole house fan. I tied into the box powering the attic light and ran a line to an outlet the fan plugs into. I want this to work on a switch. I had it working on a gfci outlet but when I turned it off the gfci tripped and would not go back on. Since this wont work I took a regular outlet and installed the same way. The fan runs when plugged in but the switch does not work

Here is the diagram I used. Any advice greatly appreciated
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You can not use white wire as the hot. So the white neutral wire to neutral side of the outlet. If the brass tab is broken then wire has to go around both screws. The black hot wire goes to the switch. Then you usually use a different color other than white/black/green from the switch to the hot side of the outlet. You can use black if you have to. If the tab is broken on the hot side of the outlet then the screw you connect the hot to will power that side of the outlet.

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Did you break the tab on the hot side of the outlet between the termination screws?

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sparky5785 said:
Did you break the tab on the hot side of the outlet between the termination screws?

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No...am I supposed to do that? I think I read that only allows the switch to control half the outlet which I'm ok with. I did check to see if power was getting to the switch which it wasn't, but like I said its the same way I hooked it up with the gfci and it worked then
 
Yes that is how one side is controlled by a switch and the other side has constant power. If that is what you are trying to achieve. Otherwise if you'd like both sides of the outlet to work off the switch then don't break the tab and remove the constant hot wire frim the outlet and only have the switched hot to the outlet. If that makes sense. If you want you can call me just pm me for the number and I can talk you through it.

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sparky5785 said:
Yes that is how one side is controlled by a switch and the other side has constant power. If that is what you are trying to achieve. Otherwise if you'd like both sides of the outlet to work off the switch then don't break the tab and remove the constant hot wire frim the outlet and only have the switched hot to the outlet. If that makes sense. If you want you can call me just pm me for the number and I can talk you through it.

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Thanks. I'll take a look at it tomorrow. By not cutting the tab between the two posts would that cause the switch to not have power? I didn't cut the tab between the two posts on the gfci and it was working with the switch but tripping the outlet in the process
 
What it is doing is supplying constant power to both sides of the outlet regardless of what the switch does with the gfci what I believe is that perhaps you were shorting out the gfci depending on where everything is terminated. There are a lot of variables when it comes to electricity that's why I figured as a union electrician I could help walk you through it. Just let me know if you need any help.

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sparky5785 said:
What it is doing is supplying constant power to both sides of the outlet regardless of what the switch does with the gfci what I believe is that perhaps you were shorting out the gfci depending on where everything is terminated. There are a lot of variables when it comes to electricity that's why I figured as a union electrician I could help walk you through it. Just let me know if you need any help.

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It appears to me that the diagram is correct but it does does say to break the tab on the Hot side. See the "Bre" on the diagram. It does make sense to me that the GFI might trip, and will definitely not reset if that tab were not broken.

Option 2:
Remove the live wire that feeds the outlet directly. In this case, both outlets will be controlled by the switch.

However, if you where to do so, you should measure a voltage of about 110V at the switch. You mentioned that you were not measuring a voltage at the switch, so you may have made a mistake with your wiring. When the switch is in the off position, you should measure this voltage, with respect to ground, on only the supply terminal. When the switch is in the on position, the voltage should appear on both terminals.
 
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