This afternoon I installed a new ceiling fan in my bedroom. Everything went okay, but I had a really hard time getting the canopy to fit over the bracket, because the canopy had gotten a little bent - of course, right where it was supposed to screw into the bracket. I straightened it out best I could, and with some jiggling finally got the fan mounted. So I plugged the fuse back in and flipped the switch…
only to hear a “pop” and see a spark of electricity come out of the canopy.
So, off went the switch, and I unplugged the fuse again (it hadn’t burnt out), and took the fan down again. It seems that with the jiggling I did to get the fan on the bracket, the black wire (for the fan motor?) got pinched by the bracket and the insulation was scraped away. There is a nice little sooty mark on the bracket where the contact took place.
My question is, is this fan probably hosed now? Or can I cut back the black wire to where the insulation was scraped away, and try connecting it again?