Okay so normally i would have shut off the breaker when installing a new fan instead I made sure the light switches were off and tested the wiring in the ceiling to make sure nothing was hot.
Took down the old generic round light and found both a red and black in the ceiling, black not being used, red feeding the light. There are three wall switches and all other rooms had been wired for fans/lights. So wiring I hooked up the ground wires, neutrals, then black to black (not previously used) and red to the blue fan wire. Put it all together, flipped the switch the light came on. Flipped the fan switch and then went to pull the chain but it was stuck so shut it all back off and undid a few pieces to free up the pull chain.
The second I pulled the fan pull chain, with the wall switch off, the whole bedroom went dark and breaker was tripped.
So, makig sure the switches were off, i shut off other lamps that were on and went to reset the breaker. It's a GFI breaker and at first I couldn't get it to the OFF position. Finally went after a few pushes. Switched it to ON and nothing, would not stay in the ON position at all...
Of course I'm doing this late night as I cant sleep and cant take the fan apart until tomorrow when Ill have some light in that room, but when I do what should I be looking for?
Trying to figure out if it could be the fan/light wiring (maybe something became disconnected) or could the breaker be bad?
Thanks!
Took down the old generic round light and found both a red and black in the ceiling, black not being used, red feeding the light. There are three wall switches and all other rooms had been wired for fans/lights. So wiring I hooked up the ground wires, neutrals, then black to black (not previously used) and red to the blue fan wire. Put it all together, flipped the switch the light came on. Flipped the fan switch and then went to pull the chain but it was stuck so shut it all back off and undid a few pieces to free up the pull chain.
The second I pulled the fan pull chain, with the wall switch off, the whole bedroom went dark and breaker was tripped.
So, makig sure the switches were off, i shut off other lamps that were on and went to reset the breaker. It's a GFI breaker and at first I couldn't get it to the OFF position. Finally went after a few pushes. Switched it to ON and nothing, would not stay in the ON position at all...
Of course I'm doing this late night as I cant sleep and cant take the fan apart until tomorrow when Ill have some light in that room, but when I do what should I be looking for?
Trying to figure out if it could be the fan/light wiring (maybe something became disconnected) or could the breaker be bad?
Thanks!
GFI breaker tripped when installing ceiling fan and won't reset
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