2006-11-01 01:35:35 · 3 answers · asked by poncho 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
If you are looking to wire a receptacle with two individual circuits or one half controled by switch and one half hot all the time, you must break off the tab that physically connects the two screw plates on the side of the receptacle. The brass or colored screw is the hot side and the silver or light side is the neutral side.
If you are doing the latter, controlling half the receptacle with a switch, you need to bring the hot wire to one screw and the switched wire to the other. If they are two circuits, each should have its own neutral, and that tab should be broken off as well.
If you are un-splitting the receptacle, you should make a pigtail joint on the hot and take a wire to each screw. You wil have to do the same to the neutral side.
2006-11-01 01:44:49 · answer #1 · answered by Ron 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Split receptacles use a jumper wire to Carry the hot to remain on the same circuit, get diagram at WWWGrainger.com
2006-11-01 01:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by edgarrrw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ron said it all! Couldn't have said it any better.
2006-11-01 16:50:37 · answer #3 · answered by r0cky74 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋