How To Wire A Outlet And Light Switch

To connect the switches simply score the wire with your wire stripper and push the insulation to expose about 3 4 in.

How to wire a outlet and light switch. For example my living room outlets are connected to the same circuit as the lights which is usually the case in most houses so if i ever wanted to cut power to the outlets but keep the lights on i could install a switch outlet combo at the first outlet in the circuit. Twist the three wires together clockwise and screw on a wire cap then connect the short wire back to the switch. When the wiring connections are made properly there is always the possibility for the wiring in a switch box to provide power for a light switch while providing power to outlets on the same circuit. In this case you must change the cable from the switch to the light outlet from a 2 wire to a 3 wire cable.

After identifying the line and load terminals on the switch remove the wire going to the light fixture twist it together with the wire going to the outlet add a jumper wire cap them and attach the jumper wire back to the switch s load terminal. To add an additional outlet to the combo device simple connect the line neutral and ground terminals as shown in the fig below. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. Connect the last switch in the usual manner looping the wire around the screw in a clockwise direction.

In this wiring diagram the builtin switch in the combo device controls a lighting point whereas outlet can be used for other loads. The exception here is if the outlet that s controlled by the light switch is only connected to that light switch and there aren t any other wires. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. Disconnect the live wire from the switch and splice it together with the black wire going to your new outlet adding a 6 inch length of spare black wire of the same gauge to make a pigtail.

Instead of running a separate pigtail from the hot wire to each switch just leave the hot wire extra long. If that s the case you ll only have one black wire one white wire and a ground wire connected to the outlet. At the switch box the white neutral wires are spliced together and the ground wires are spliced and a pigtail wire is added and attached to the green ground screw on the light switch frame. As you can see connecting a receptacle to the light would see the receptacle only hot when the light switch is on.

Twist and cap the white wires connect all the ground wires to the ground screw and you re done. You just need to keep track of the wire designations and make the spliced connections to support the devices you are connecting to.