The outlet automatically splits the electric path. For wiring in series the terminal screws are the means for passing voltage from one receptacle to another.
How To Wire 240 Volt Outlets And Plugs
Series outlet wiring diagram. This wiring is commonly used in a 20 amp kitchen circuit where two appliance feeds are needed such as for a refrigerator and a microwave in the same location. You can save this photographic file to your own personal pc. The neutral wire from the circuit is shared by both sets. This is the wiring outlets in series diagram of a imagine i get via the multiple outlet wiring diagram package. Any break or malfunction in one outlet will cause all the other outlets to fail. Wiring in series or daisy chained vs.
Parallel receptacles daisy chain wired receptacles wiring in series. Multiple outlet in serie wiring diagram. In our photograph of the back of an older electrical receptacle synonyms used by normal people include outlet or wall plug this back wired receptacle illustrates wiring electrical receptacles in series or daisy chained. Please right click on the image and save the photograph. Wiring diagram for dual outlets. The procedure for wiring an outlet is to connect the incoming wires to one set of terminals and the outgoing wires to the other set.
The diagram above shows 2 outlets wired in series and more outlets can be added to this circuit by wiring the 2nd outlet just like the 1st outlet to keep the circuit continuing on until you end the circuit at the last outlet. Here 3 wire cable is run from a double pole circuit breaker providing an independent 120 volts to two sets of multiple outlets. When you daisy chain receptacles in a residential circuit youre actually wiring them in parallel not in series. We also have some more graphics connected to multiple outlet wiring diagram please see the graphic gallery below click one of the graphics then the picture will be.