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. In this part i show you how to wire one side of an outlet to a switch while keeping the other side under constant power.
Video How To Wire A Half Switched Outlet One Project Closer
Half hot outlet diagram. Switched outlet diagram with hot and a neutral entering the switch box. The source hot at the switch is spliced with the red cable wire to the outlet and a pigtail to the switch. After the video and a few pictures i explain an alternative method that can be used to achieve a half switched outlet when power comes to the outlet first. 12 9 17 its over 9000. The diagram shows the power entering into the circuit at the switch box location then sending one power line for the outlet which is hot all the time and a switched leg for the top half of the outlet being used for a table lamp or a floor fixture. If the video moved too quickly these pictures should make the wiring setup clear.
This splits the outlet so each half functions independently. From there a 3 conductor cable is installed to a. Our people also have some more pictures connected to wiring a disposal please see the graphic gallery below click one of the pics then the picture. In the approach in the video power enters first at. While the entire duplex outlet could be turned on via a wall switch only one of the two plug ins is usually switched. A half hot or switched outlet is a duplex outlet that has one half permanently on or ready to provide electricity while the other half can be turned off and on via an ordinary wall switch.
A diagram would help confirm how i think it should be done. You can save this photographic file to your personal pc. Is there a wiring diagram somewhere for this. This leaves the other half. Wiring for a half hot switched outlet. All the links.
I just havent found it. This is part 4 of the woodworking shed build series. In the wiring diagram above a hot and a neutral enter the single pole switch box. Chris the most often overlooked key to making a half hot outlet work is to make sure to remove the bridge or tab that is the connection between the top receptacle and the bottom receptacle on the brass or power side of the outlet. Three wire cable runs from the switch to the outlet providing two hot wires to that location. The same wiring diagram can be used if the power is instead coming from another outlet and connected to one of the depicted outlets on the end.
At the receptacle the red connects to the top half of the outlet. Please right click on the image and save the picture. But in addition i want half of each outlet controlled by the switch and the other half of each outlet always hot. Wiring diagram walk through. The key to wiring a half hot outlet. This is the switched outlet half hot diagrams how to wire a in and diagram of a graphic i get off the wiring a disposal collection.
I want 2 maybe 3 outlets controlled by the same switch.
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