Outstanding Hook Up Light Switch To Outlet

Either way one receptacle will be controlled by the light switch.

Hook up light switch to outlet. You d still have the switch to control the lights but you now have an extra outlet that you can use for that fancy. The incoming power from the outlet is attached to one of the light switch screw terminals and the black wire of the cable leading to the light fixture is attached to the other light switch screw terminal. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch.

Connections to the outlet are basically color to color for the blacks whites and green or bare. In the tutorial viewers will see the use of. Turn the power back on and make sure that the outlet works properly by plugging in a lamp and checking to see that the light switch turns the lamp on and off.

The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. You could replace the light switch on the wall with a switch outlet combo. The first thing you need to do is distinguish the line cable coming from the panel from the load cable which is the one going to the light fixture.

If power is coming into the switch box from the panel and you want to connect an outlet to the switch your first option is to wire the receptacle to always be on. 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. The one that gives a positive reading is the line.

Say your countertop appliances are hogging all of the outlets in your kitchen. With the breaker on turn the switch off and test both switch leads with a voltage tester. At the switch box the white neutral wires are spliced together and the ground wires are spliced and a pigtail wire is added and attached to the green ground screw on the light switch frame.

The switch can control your lights the switch can control the outlet or the switch can control both your lights and the outlet. Once you identify it be sure. The source is at the sw1 where the hot is connected to the common terminal and the neutral spliced through to the neutral on the outlet.