re: OB-electrician help

I rarely see two hots in a fan box.
Most people just splice the light and the fan from one hot.
Also, the white is not your GROUND, its called a neutral.
The bare wire is ground.


Now to the OP, be very careful that you know your circuit is deenergized.
Just because a breaker says something, doesn't means it will kill the power to what you think it will.
People have brain farts and can make mistakes labeling.
My breaker panel is not even labeled, (fun), and in at least two rooms in my house the idiot broke the neutral instead of the hot with the switch.

Something like that can be painful if you just turn off the switch. Instead of the breaker to change a fan.

And, like everyone else said, check the switch.
Check for power at the switch with it in the on position.
With the breaker on, put your meter across one of the hots at a time (one is really called a traveler but for our purposes they can both just be hots) and the bare ground.
If your switch is good you should read 120 when on either of the hots and the ground.
If your switch is bad you will get 120 on one of the hots but not both.
Btw don't be fooled by the colors of the wires in the switch box, one will likely be black, the other white.
Just because its white does not make it a neutral.

If your switch turns out to be good, then you may have some burned or broken wires somewhere, and that can be a huge fire hazard, so don't play around.

Good luck hope I was helpful.

Don't feel bad OB OP I trying to backtrack an electrical problem myself.

My bathroom gfci switch will not reset. I removed the line wires and it resets when the breaker is turned on so my problem is down circuit from the tripped switch.

I would bet money it's a switch.... Those switches that are in houses are cheap pieces of shite that are always going out

What tino said

Yeah it was one of the switches.

Now to home depot to drop $4

I'm just glad it was the switch. It lasted 10.

I was def replying to the OP.