Wall Outlet Wiring Diagram
In this diagram wall outlets are wired in a row using the terminal screws to pass voltage from one receptacle to the next.
Wall outlet wiring diagram. Wiring a grounded duplex receptacle outlet. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. Any break or malfunction in one outlet will cause all the other outlets to fail. Standard wall outlet receptacle wiring.
The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. The hot black wire should connector to the brass colored screw. Wiring multiple outlets in a series. Multiple outlet in serie wiring diagram.
This wiring diagram illustrates adding wiring for a light switch to control an existing wall outlet. When wiring a wall outlet the neutral white wire should connect to the white or silver metal screw. The black wire from the switch connects to the hot on the receptacle. Using this method any break or malfunction at one outlet will likely cause all the outlets that follow to fail as well.
This is a standard 15 amp 120 volt wall receptacle outlet wiring diagram. Don t use this receptacle when no ground wire is available. For wiring in series the terminal screws are the means for passing voltage from one receptacle to another. Wiring outlets together using the device terminals instead of a pigtail splice as shown in the next diagram can create a weakest link problem.
The long slot on the left is the neutral contact and the short slot is the hot contact. The green screw obviously ties to the bare ground wire. To wire multiple outlets follow the circuit diagrams posted in this article. This is a polarized device.