Hi all,
I called Leviton on this (twice)
the last conversation was "You've got a floating neutral".
I'm working on installing a ceiling fan. When I roughed in a wall switch and ceiling box I confirmed there was juice to the ceiling box. That was good: 120 switch on. But 58v or so even when the switch was off.
Leviton assured me that was normal. At the time I was using an illuminated switch.
Now it gets weird. With the ceiling fan wired in and using a plain old toggle switch I get 120v from hot/ground On or Off at the switch.
I get 58v Off hot/load and Zerov On hot/load
Most Outlets on the circuit test "Correct".
There are two outlets down stream from the ceiling fan that show no ground - they're on old BX and I dropped the ball grounding them
when the wall was open. The NM is 12/3 with the red controlling load to the fan, black to the outlets
I'm going to undo the wiring cx in the ceiling fan to see if I messed something up
Is it possible those Bx Ungrounded outlets could cause trouble for a wall switch?
Is "Open Neutral" the same as Floating Neutral?
thanks for any thoughts. Man, I dig the best graves.
I called Leviton on this (twice)
the last conversation was "You've got a floating neutral".
I'm working on installing a ceiling fan. When I roughed in a wall switch and ceiling box I confirmed there was juice to the ceiling box. That was good: 120 switch on. But 58v or so even when the switch was off.
Leviton assured me that was normal. At the time I was using an illuminated switch.
Now it gets weird. With the ceiling fan wired in and using a plain old toggle switch I get 120v from hot/ground On or Off at the switch.
I get 58v Off hot/load and Zerov On hot/load
Most Outlets on the circuit test "Correct".
There are two outlets down stream from the ceiling fan that show no ground - they're on old BX and I dropped the ball grounding them
when the wall was open. The NM is 12/3 with the red controlling load to the fan, black to the outlets
I'm going to undo the wiring cx in the ceiling fan to see if I messed something up
Is it possible those Bx Ungrounded outlets could cause trouble for a wall switch?
Is "Open Neutral" the same as Floating Neutral?
thanks for any thoughts. Man, I dig the best graves.