Wiring incubator help

eatmorechicken

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I'm not an electrician and I don't want to burn my house down. I took apart a blow dryer to get the fan I left the red wire plugged into the fan then I plugged into the outlet, then touched the other black wire onto the power source from the main cord and caused a big spark, tripped the breaker. what did I do wrong? should I attach the wires before I plug in or will that spark to. Do I need smaller wires, or wire through the relay that came with the blow dryer. Help
 
It sounds like you ran two hot wires together. That'll blow your fingers off if you are not carefull!

If you are using the relay method. Take a look at this.

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Its about as simple as I could draw it.

In mine you need a 12 volt source for the house thermostat & computer fan. If your running a hair dryer as a fan just be careful. I don't know what the guts of a hair dryer look like. Maybe just cut the heat element? and leave the rest alone.
 
Could you upload a pic of what you have? There should only be 2 wires coming out of the fan and as long as you dont hook either of those to ground it will run. Sounds like you created a direct short by hooking neutral to hot. sounds like some other stuff in the blow dryer is still hooked up.
 
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Sorry no pic... I tried one more time with no luck... the light from the spark was real bright though. I'm still seeing spots. There was wires tangled all over before I took it apart, and never understood what they all did, so out of my frustration I threw the dang thing away. I will get a computer fan instead.
 

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