wiring a ceiling fan with light using 2 wire

Those little conduits were glowing red just from the EMF. I've seen videos of heavy equipment with 3 little 12' nipples and they had it with A phase in 1, B in the second, and C in the 3rd. Side note: EMF is proportional to the current. With 2 14/2's with only the light or fan on then there will be current flowing in the other without any other conductor to cancel out the EMF. Hence my question.Īlways count on r/electrical to have a bunch of DIYers giving out bad advice. Scenario C is what I was looking to do, but then became concerned about the unbalanced voltage that would be created. * Hot and Neutral's not balanced in either 14/2 Scenario C: Two 14/2's, not running parallel Scenario B: a 14/3 with switches on the wall Trying to draw a picture of the wiring with text: Scenario A: Starting situation, a single 14/2 with switch only on the unit Is this a problem, or am I overcomplicating things? what happens if just the light is turned on, so the light hot has power, but perhaps the fan's 14/2 neutral is used the for the return.

Can I safely connect the two neutrals from each of the 14/2 runs to the shared neutral on the fan? I'm sure it'll work in that the light and fan will correctly operate based on the switches, but I'm concerned about a balance of power in the runs themselves.

The unit has 3 wires a hot for the light, hot for the fan, and a shared neutral. So now I have two 14/2 runs from the wall switches to the unit, one for the light, and one for the fan. I ran another 14/2 wire from this switch to the unit (same circuit as the first 14/2). I've added a separate fan control switch (Leviton DW4SF-1BW ) to the wall so that I can control the fan from the wall and/or Alexa/Google etc.

It has 14/2 wire from the wall switch to the unit and pull strings to separately control the light and fan. I have an existing ceiling fan with light (I'll call the combination the unit to differentiate between its fan and light) installed in a room.

Wiring a ceiling fan with light using 2 wire