How To Wire A Switch Off An Outlet

Before touching any bare wires or terminals on a switch or outlet use a voltage tester on all the wires to make sure the power is off.

How to wire a switch off an outlet. In this video we learn how to wire a half hot receptacle which is useful if you want to control an outlet with a light switch. This is an alternative to waving your arms while wandering about in a dark room searching for a pull chain or reaching under a lamp shade to find the switch. If one half of a duplex outlet is controlled by a wall switch then the hot tab and possibly the neutral tab will be broken off. This wiring diagram illustrates adding wiring for a light switch to control an existing wall outlet.

Now remove the wire cap from the two white wires in the box add the white wire from the outlet and reset the cap. 12 9 17 its over 9000. To add an additional outlet to the combo device simple connect the line neutral and ground terminals as shown in the fig below. Wiring an outlet to a switch loop.

If you wanted the outlet on the switch to remain on while all of the other outlets turned off you would simply reverse the black wire connections. Remove the black line wire from the switch twist it together with the black wire going to the receptacle and add a six inch length of black wire of the same gauge. Outlet power wiring a light switch and a light. This can be tricky though since you have to know where the wiring for the outlets and the lights meet up so that the switch doesn t kill both the outlets and the lights.

In this wiring diagram the builtin switch in the combo device controls a lighting point whereas outlet can be used for other loads. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. A table lamp plugged into a switched top outlet of a duplex receptacle will allow easy lighting of the room by toggling a wall switch. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch.

If playback doesn t begin shortly try restarting your device. Install a switch to control the top outlet of an existing duplex receptacle or electric outlet. Connect this jumper wire back to the switch terminal. Or if the top and bottom outlets of a duplex receptacle are powered by two different circuits the hot tab and possibly the neutral tab will be removed.