How To Wire A Switched Outlet Combo

Make fresh cuts on the ends of both hot wires and the ground wire with wire cutters.

How to wire a switched outlet combo. Switch can control the light only. Strip both ends of the fresh cut. Both terminals are internally connected. How to wire a switch and outlet combo.

At the receptacle the red connects to the top half of the outlet. Ground connection diagram is shown separately. Switch and the outlet can have different lines in. A switch and outlet combo can be configured in several ways.

Wide blade of outlet should be connected to the neutral wire and load can be connected through the switch. There is a break away fin tab intact to the line terminals of normal combo switch and outlet whereas it doesn t exist in gfci or afci combo device. The source hot at the switch is spliced with the red cable wire to the outlet and a pigtail to the switch. In addition there is test and and reset buttons on gfci combo switch outlet and one side can be used as line source.

How to install electrical outlet and switch combo wiring in most cases the primary power source is shared between the switch and the outlet either with a wire jumper or the bridge or tab that is located on the side of the combo switch and outlet. Assortment of leviton switch outlet combination wiring diagram. In normal combo switch outlet the line should be connected to the one line terminal which is interconnected via break away fin i e. A wiring diagram is a simplified traditional photographic representation of an electric circuit.

Switch can control the light and outlet. More about how to wire a switched outlet. Strip the ends of all three wires with the wire cutter blades to expose 1 2 inch of wire strands. Cut the neutral wire 10 inches from the incoming raceway.

The following diagrams show each wiring configuration. Electrical wiring for a switch outlet combination. Three wire cable runs from the switch to the outlet providing two hot wires to that location. You can also split apart an extension cord and install a switch outlet combo in between so that the extension cord still acts as normal but it now has a switched outlet connected to it that you can plug anything into and turn it on and off with the switch using the wiring method in the previous paragraph.

Before wiring installation of a combo device one must know the basic different between combo gfci and combo switch outlet. The black cable wire runs from the switch to the bottom half of the outlet.