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This house is great for WTFs. Each bedroom has an outlet and a ceiling fan controlled by a light switch. I eas hoping they did it the easy way and used the lamp box to tie everything together, but nope, one cable in the box. So,i decided to next look at the switch, maybe that's the junction, and… Off the top of my head i only know two ways to wire a circuit like this, but they came up with a third, they used a 14-3 Romex cable in the switch box. Umm, i'm trying to think of what they could've done, and drawing a bit of a blank.

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On arrival 30+ yrs ago, found that to turn on upstairs bathroom light we had to have downstairs family room wall switch in on position. #diy 🙄
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Gotta love it. This one isn't a DYI weirdness, its a creative choice, I'll have to turn off the circuit to check, but I think what they did was bring power into the room through the switch. Obviously that creates a problem as you don't want all of your outlets on a switch, so instead of 14-2 in and a 14-2 out, they appear to have used a 14-3 out so there's two hots coming out, one always live and one switched. While I can understand it, its certainly not how they taught us to do it in school.
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