I have an existing ceiling fan rough in that is wired with 3 conductor wire to two switches, allowing the light and fan to be controlled independently.
The fan that I installed however uses a wireless controller for the fan and light control, and therefore only uses a single hot wire(one switch), the other conductor for the unused switch is just capped in the ceiling fan box.
I would like to add a separate ceiling light fixture in this room. It has occurred to me that I have a switch that is not being used because the fan can only be controlled by a single switch.
Can I simply tap into the existing neutral, and unused hot in the ceiling fan to run to my new fixture? This would save me from having to add a new switch.
In other words, I would run 14/2 from the ceiling fan fixture to the new light location. I would tie the new hot to the unused hot in the ceiling fan fixture, tie neutral to neutral, and ground to ground.
This seems to be pretty straightforward, but I wanted to see if there was any reason this wouldn't be an acceptable approach.
Best Answer
So long as you will not overload the circuit (figure out what all is on the circuit), you should be fine.