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    Wouldn't be the first time a junk switch caused problems. For starters, your black probe should go to ground and the red should be used to check for voltage. Having voltage on the fixture side (the red wire goes to the light, I assume) means either you are getting something coming through the switch. (bad points, crud, random crap) or you are getting some voltage coming from the neutral side (white wires), or third option, you are getting some sort of stray voltage from another source (another unknown short). Start with pulling the wires off of the switch and remeasuring each side. If you get 120 on the hot and 0 on the fixture side, then its the switch. If you are still getting 36v on the fixture side, you have one of the other problems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thvigil11 View Post
    Wouldn't be the first time a junk switch caused problems. For starters, your black probe should go to ground and the red should be used to check for voltage. Having voltage on the fixture side (the red wire goes to the light, I assume) means either you are getting something coming through the switch. (bad points, crud, random crap) or you are getting some voltage coming from the neutral side (white wires), or third option, you are getting some sort of stray voltage from another source (another unknown short). Start with pulling the wires off of the switch and remeasuring each side. If you get 120 on the hot and 0 on the fixture side, then its the switch. If you are still getting 36v on the fixture side, you have one of the other problems.
    Unhooked the light. Still showing 36v on the fixture screw.

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