Post by wesleyaarons on Jan 23, 2015 23:02:20 GMT -5
I ended up with a Cool Breeze stencil hugger (dated 1986) from a older mobile home that was about to be demolished. The fan was in the living room of the mobile home and wired to a cord which went across the ceiling and plugged into the wall. Fan was in great shape, but the cord had seen better days, so I decided to replace the cord as I plan to use this fan in a temporary install in my home during the winter...I know a decent amount when it comes to wiring things, but maybe I don't... ever since I put a new cord on it--nothing. I'm using a 15 ft extension cord with the female in cut off...to my knowledge, the neutral (white) wire would be connected to the wire that is connected to the widest prong on the plug and the hot (black) wire connected to the wire that is connected to the smaller prong on the plug. The fan has no light kit and I have no intention of installing one, so I just put a wire nut over the blue wire. When I took the old cord off the fan, I didn't pay attention to which color wire was connected to which side of the cord, but when I ripped the wad of electrical tape off from the old cord, it almost looked like the black wire was connected to a wire on the cord, the white wire was connected to a wire on the cord, and all 4 wires were twisted all together and screwed into one wire nut together (with the blue lightkit wire left disconnected)...I could be totally wrong as it took a lot of pulling to get the old electrical tape off...but I do know for a fact there was only one wire nut used in the whole mess of wires...common sense told me twisting every single wire together and slapping one wire nut on them could not be correct or safe...or am I wrong? Help, please!