Installed a bathroom vent/light and it trips!

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Hey friends Installed the vent/light on 2 switches to function separately. The first switch operates the light and works fine. The second switch has 2 on/off switches. The bottom operates the vent/fan fine but the top operates nothing and trips the circuit when switched!! Maybe I wired wrong or I should change the switch? There are 2 14/2 romex wires running to the fan. I tied the whites together, ground together, blacks separately to switches, brown and grey I tied with the black going to vent/fan switch Please help
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It may help if you can post some pictures of the wiring at the switches and the vent/fan.

Now you've added pictures you can ignore this :)
 
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Jangell4444 said:
Hey friends Installed the vent/light on 2 switches to function separately. The first switch operates the light and works fine. The second switch has 2 on/off switches. The bottom operates the vent/fan fine but the top operates nothing and trips the circuit when switched!! Maybe I wired wrong or I should change the switch? There are 2 14/2 romex wires running to the fan. I tied the whites together, ground together, blacks separately to switches, brown and grey I tied with the black going to vent/fan switch Please help
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Jangell you stated that you had 2 cables coming in the box and you tied all the whites together when in fact one of them whites was the switch leg. It is supposed to be marked with black tape but a lot of people that do electrical work don’t do it and I’m not going to call them electricians. Good luck
 

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