Ceiling fan installation issues -- PLEASE HELP!!!?

Question

I recently switched apartments (same complex). I took my ceiling fan from the old apartment (where I installed it myself & it worked fine) & am trying to install it in my new bedroom. Since my new bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, I had to buy a 2-ft extension rod & a wiring extension kit.

My fan has a total of five wires - 1 blue, 1 white, 1 black, and 2 ground wires. One ground is connected to the mounting plate and the other's connected to the top of the downrod & hanger ball assembly. The box in my ceiling is just like the one in my old place - 1 bare ground, 1 white, 1 black.

I swapped downrods & extended the white, black, and blue fan wires through the rod using blue connectors. I connected the two ground wires to the bare ground, the white to the white, and the black & blue to the black. My light works fine... but whenever I try to turn the fan on, it's trips my breaker switch every time!!

What could I be doing wrong?? The fan was working fine last week in the other apartment!

Answer 1

your blue wire is grounded somewhere in the mix . either in the connection in the rod or in the box.

Answer 2

I can't think of any way to debug this without being on site with instrumentation.

Answer 3

Check for a pinched wire, bare connection or broken insulation on the wire from YOUR splice to the fan motor.

Answer 4

You sound fairly knowledgeable with this.  Obviously there is a short, and it has to be on the fan side of the switch that turns it on.  The problem is probably inside the wiring canopy that holds the light.  Maybe a wire is pinched.

Answer 5

blue and black to blackand white to white and the green/bare together and or to the box.  common neutral on this and the blue and black is one for light the other for fan.

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