"When you use a remote switch wired from the junction box you send power down the white wire to the switch.So you connect the white in the power cord to the motor power input. The black from the switch is then the live wire to the motor power input. In your case #4 and #1,3,5 get power. 8-J-2 connect together."
.....connect the white in the power cord to the motor power input. Does this mean white in the power cord to #4, referred to as line in the wiring diagram?
The black from the switch is then the live wire to the motor power input I'm confused by the use of motor power input. twice. Is this hot leg connected to #4 or #1-3-5?
"It should have worked Brian. Check wiring again- sounds like you crossed the switch white with the power white" Mark
Double checked, white from power cord is connected to #1-3-5, white from switch to #4(but i've now changed that)
I connected blk in power cord to white in switch leg(taped blk), then blk from switch to #4, (motor power input right?) so this should be a hot leg from the power cord through the switch to #4, which makes sense to me. The motor runs in the correct rotation but the switch is still inoperable, switch leg always hot(always closed). I don't get how this can be unless the switch itself was fried when I tried connecting the white from the power cord to 2-j-8 which popped the breaker (as noted earlier).
Please advise, thanks,
Brian
just saw this after making this post:
"Check also that the power switch hasn't shorted inside- long shot but possible"
ps two blacks are still connected?" Mark
Blacks are not connected as I've wired it as posted above, and yes I think the switch may now be the problem. I'll test that later today.
For my own clarity; the hot leg goes from the power cord through the switch and into the motor via #4, then returns to the neutral in the power cord via #1-3-5, am I looking at this correctly?
thanks again