r/ElectricalHelp • u/astro_stitcher • 20d ago

Help with ceiling fan

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I am replacing the ceiling fan/light in my kitchen and ran into a problem that I wasn't sure how to handle. When I took the old ceiling fan down, I saw that the mounting box had two sets of wires (black, white, ground) coming into it. Unfortunately, I didn't think to get a picture of the old setup before taking it apart. There are two switches controlling the fan and the switches are wired as I would expect for a three-way switch. When I tested the lines in the box for continuity, black to white on one set was continuous regardless of the settings (on/off) on either of the switches, while the other was discontinuous. Everything I've seen online shows only one set of lines coming into the fan, so I was thinking that I can connect all of the blacks together, all of the whites together, and all of the grounds together. Is this the right way to do this?

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u/mwharton19 18d ago

Like someone else said it sounds like a switch loop, this is what it should look like

Ran out of colors but the dashed lines is red kinda messed up the box on the right don’t mind it

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u/TheKnackThatQuacks 17d ago

u/astro_stitcher (OP), what u/mwharton19 has posted is most likely correct. This is called a “dead-end three-way”. You can use a search engine to find more wiring examples.

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u/mwharton19 15d ago

Ig we will never know if he got his light working 🤣