Top Notch Light Switch Connected To Outlet

The switch can control your lights the switch can control the outlet or the switch can control both your lights and the outlet.

Light switch connected to outlet. Wiring a single pole light switch. Here a single pole switch controls the power to a light fixture. When you move to a new apartment or house you ll probably find that some light switches control outlets rather than built in light fixtures.

You then splice all the white wires and all the ground wires in the switch box together. Hook up the outlet as you normally would. You ll need to break this piece off so that the two screws are independent of each other.

At the light the white wire connects to the neutral terminal and the black wire connects to the hot. You d still have the switch to control the lights but you now have an extra outlet that you can use for that fancy new blender you bought. If not then the light switch will simply turn off the whole outlet as well as the entire circuit following that outlet.

Grab your new outlet and locate the connecting piece that bridges the top brass colored screw with the bottom brass colored screw. Here s a quick way to possibly see which outlets are. The outlet is only hot when the switch is turned on.

Notice that in this diagram the neutral wire never leaves the receptacle box. 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 black wire at the switch is now switched hot which is run back to the receptacle and connected to the gold terminal d.

With the breaker on turn the switch off and test both switch leads with a voltage tester. 12 9 17 its over 9000. How to wire up a electrical outlet to a light switch.