The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV
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Why does Hellboy II: The Golden Army have an 86% percent score on Rotten Tomatoes despite being an awful movie?
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Non-facetiously, the Rotten Tomatoes rating doesn't tell you that critics actively feted the movie, only that they gave it a positive review, with "positive" being fairly broadly defined. If a movie receives uniform "7/10" reviews, it will approach 100%; if a movie receives uniform "10/10" reviews, it will approach 100%. The point of the rating is to tell you how good a movie is, but how strongly the consensus tends towards it being a good movie- and more specifically, what the consensus was at the time of release, typically after a single viewing.
Hellboy II receives an average score of 7.2/10, and a rating of 86%; similarly, Hellboy recieves an average score of 6.8, and a rating of 81%. This tells us that while neither movie was great, they were non-controversial, that a majority of critics would be happy to recommend them to somebody who likes this kind of thing. In contrast, Pacific Rim recieved an average score of 6.6, not far behind the first Hellboy film, but only gets a rating of 71%, which tells us that while the critical response was not markedly stronger than to the Hellboy films, it was more divided, that there was less clear of a consensus in its favour.
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So...? If it's terrible (which it is, watch it), it should still have gotten a low score.
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I am reading through my ceiling fan installation notes, and it assumes that I will have 1 switch for it (to turn it on/off). It comes with a remote that I will use to dim the light and to control the fan direction/speed.
However, my current set up has a 3 way switch setup to control the light fixture that I will be replacing with the fan. One switch is at the bottom of the stairs, one is at the top.
I can't find any instructions on how to set this up anywhere. I want the 2 switches to control the fan+lights on/off. How do I do that? The ceiling fan is a hunter and they don't seem to have any instructions like this at all. I've been able to find a way to hook it up so that one switch controls the light and the other the fan, but that's not what I want.
Where do I find documentation on this? Each 3 way setup I find online seems different, with different coloured wires, etc. For now I've figured out that there are "traveller" wires running between the two light switches. Some diagrams show that the traveller wires between the 2 light switches only, but in some diagrams it seems to show that they also run to the light itself.
So what the hell do I do now?
edit: the only other threads I could post this in haven't been used since 2016 or earlier
edit2: This is what I found and I assume is what I need to follow
But I am not sure why the fan doesn't have a green ground wire running to it. I am pretty sure if I open that light and take it down, I will see black, white, and green coming out of the ceiling. If there are any other colours coming out though and/or more than that amount of wires, then I will be completely lost though. I am also a bit lost when it comes to connecting white wires to black ones, which does not make sense to me, but if I'm looking at this right those are the "traveller" wires and wait a second, I think they're just doing that becuase they ran out of colours to use. Okay I think I get it? If I'm looking at this right I won't have to worry about those wires at all
Updated question: In a 3-way switch type wiring setup, one installs the ceiling fan or light or whatever it happens to be totally ignoring the 3-way setup, assuming that the wires coming out will work the same way as though you had 1 switch and not 2? Do I have this right or am I way off
However, my current set up has a 3 way switch setup to control the light fixture that I will be replacing with the fan. One switch is at the bottom of the stairs, one is at the top.
I can't find any instructions on how to set this up anywhere. I want the 2 switches to control the fan+lights on/off. How do I do that? The ceiling fan is a hunter and they don't seem to have any instructions like this at all. I've been able to find a way to hook it up so that one switch controls the light and the other the fan, but that's not what I want.
Where do I find documentation on this? Each 3 way setup I find online seems different, with different coloured wires, etc. For now I've figured out that there are "traveller" wires running between the two light switches. Some diagrams show that the traveller wires between the 2 light switches only, but in some diagrams it seems to show that they also run to the light itself.
So what the hell do I do now?
edit: the only other threads I could post this in haven't been used since 2016 or earlier
edit2: This is what I found and I assume is what I need to follow
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But I am not sure why the fan doesn't have a green ground wire running to it. I am pretty sure if I open that light and take it down, I will see black, white, and green coming out of the ceiling. If there are any other colours coming out though and/or more than that amount of wires, then I will be completely lost though. I am also a bit lost when it comes to connecting white wires to black ones, which does not make sense to me, but if I'm looking at this right those are the "traveller" wires and wait a second, I think they're just doing that becuase they ran out of colours to use. Okay I think I get it? If I'm looking at this right I won't have to worry about those wires at all
Updated question: In a 3-way switch type wiring setup, one installs the ceiling fan or light or whatever it happens to be totally ignoring the 3-way setup, assuming that the wires coming out will work the same way as though you had 1 switch and not 2? Do I have this right or am I way off
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OK, first, do you have access to the space above the fan? Or is there a floor above it. I don't recall that we solved your problem of not having a fan-secure box to attach this to. There is a way to solve this without coming at it from the top down. But it takes some work.
Second, you could just ignore the 3-way switch issue. What a 3-way switch does is allow you to turn the fixture on or off from 2 different locations. Doesn't matter what the fixture is. So you wire the fan in as a 1 to 1 replacement for the light.
3rd, if you don't have access above the ceiling, and you really want to wire this differently, then you are in for a pretty serious project, and might be better off handing it off to someone who knows what they are about.
4th, if you need 2 switches, for the light and the fan separately, then you need to rewire, and that means a far bigger project.
5th, in wiring black and red are 'hot' (where the electricity is), white is common (the return of the circuit), and green is ground, which in most cases is covered by a bare copper wire. So a green can attach to bare copper. White is only hot in some uncommon situations where it's the only thing available.
warpus
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The space above the fan is the attic. I have access to it in theory, but not currently as the only way up there is through my closet, and it's full of boxes. I had been meaning to clear out that closet anyway, but up in the attic there is no floor so you gotta walk on the beams, as to not step through the ceiling.
I am pretty sure there is a secure box that the light fixture is attached to right now, but I'm going to take it off and compare it to Tim's description and use that to determine if it's good enough or not.
That makes sense to me, and after reading a bunch about 3 way switches, the wires currently connected to the light fixture should be the same whether you have 2 switches or 1. So I should see a black wire, a white, and a green/copper. Right? If that's what the deal is, then I will be to hook this all up tomorrow, assuming the secure box part checks out.
It would be great, but it would mean having 2 switches at the top of the stairs, and 2 switches at the bottom. It sounds a lot more complicated, and would mean new switches, so I'd prefer to just have the switches control both (the light and the fan) at the same time. Looking at the installation instructions, it seems that this would be easy to do as is, assuming that I am understanding this 3-way switch business correctly
Hmm what's the difference between black and red? If I see red white and green, can I assume that red is black?
I am pretty sure there is a secure box that the light fixture is attached to right now, but I'm going to take it off and compare it to Tim's description and use that to determine if it's good enough or not.[/QUOTE]
If you can get above the box, then you can put a board across the top of it between the rafters and screw everything together firmly enough to support the fan.
Right. You are effectively doing a one to one replacement. Just with a different kind of fixture. Ignore the rest.
Yeah, too complicated. Forget it.
No difference between black and red. Red is used the same as black, but in places where the black is busy doing something else.
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Green is designated for ground, and white is designated for common. The hot line can be any other color, with black and red being most commonly used.
How else would you designate which is which? Wiring isn't supposed to be for the ignorant. It's too dangerous. By the time you know how to deal with this, you should know what you are dealing with.
And for those people who are colour-blind, they should be told never to wire a plug at any point in their lives?
The UK uses visually distinct colours and has done for at least 40 years.
The UK uses visually distinct colours and has done for at least 40 years.
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