bit of electrical advice required

[ban-all-sheds]

Interesting post, if only for the pedantry.

Tom - somebody who wasn't sure what they were doing asked for advice, and this is how you told him to connect up his fan:

1) take a permanent supply from the lighting circuit

2) run 2 wires from the fan to the switch. One of these wires should be red, the other should be either a black wire or a bare wire.

If you think it is pedantry to regard that as badly worded then you're delusional.

And dangerous.

 

[breezer]

tom, not that we are having a go at you but in my book 2 wires running from the fan to the switch, to control the on/off action of the fan (one red, the other black/bare) makes 3 wires

and how do you have a black/bare wire anyway (so i assume you mean black and bare.)

you also do not state size of cable

it was taken from your post that says

It should be quite simple. The fan should have a permanent supply from the lighting circuit, and 2 wires running from the fan to the switch, to control the on/off action of the fan (one red, the other black/bare)

What markings are on the connector block on the fan?

 

[nicho2k]

Now Now, Children, lets not fight!!!!