How To Connect A Switch To An Outlet

This is how to rough in electrical wiring yourself.

How to connect a switch to an outlet. And second it s easier to press the outlet back into the box if fewer of its screws are connected to wires. If a switch or outlet is on a circuit that often blows its breaker or fuse. When wiring a switch to control a 110volt outlet the power wire is connected to the switch as follows. Say your countertop appliances are hogging all of the outlets in your kitchen.

Instead use wire connectors to connect the neutral hot and ground wires along with 6 in long pigtails then connect the pigtails to the outlet. Twist the white wires together and cap them and connect the ground wires to the ground terminal. You could replace the light switch on the wall with a switch outlet combo. There is a break away fin tab intact to the line terminals of normal combo switch and outlet whereas it doesn t exist in gfci or afci combo device.

Three wire cable runs from the switch to the outlet providing two hot wires to that location. The second method of wiring middle of run receptacles is to connect them to the circuit wires via pigtails a pigtail is a short length of wire that runs from a hot or neutral screw terminal on the receptacle to the circuit wires which are joined together in the outlet box with a wire connector. Before wiring installation of a combo device one must know the basic different between combo gfci and combo switch outlet. One switch screw terminal is for the power in.

Connect the black wire to one of the switch terminals and the black wire going to the light fixture to the other switch terminal. The gfci outlet switch is different than the gfci outlet as there are two outlet in a gfci outlet and one outlet and one switch in the combo gfci switch and outlet. When that s done you can treat the cable coming from the outlet into the switch box as a regular line cable. The source hot at the switch is spliced with the red cable wire to the outlet and a pigtail to the switch.

The switch can control your lights the switch can control the outlet or the switch can control both your lights and the outlet. At the receptacle the red connects to the top half of the outlet. There are additional two wires on the back side of gfci combo switch outlet and we will show how to use them to control the different loads or gfci combo itself. In addition there is test and and reset buttons on gfci combo switch outlet and one side can be used as line source.