For Electricians: Wiring new electrical outlets?

Question

I have installed a series of new outlets, including GFI outlets, in a detached garage, but have not yet turned on power. I know that with GFI connections, one must observe line and load when continuing the circuit...but on regular outlets, I did not pay attention how lines came and went. While I kept black to brass terminals, and white to silver, they may ( or may not) cross poles in that the incoming lines may not match with outgoing lines ..top and bottom. Is this an issue?

Answer 1

calnkath, you are correct on the gfci just keep the line n load right the rest it doesn't matter as long as you hook black to brass and white to silver, green to ground n roll with it.

Answer 2

There is no line or load on regular outlet, as long as black and whites are connected together properly, you don't want to connect the black to the top and the white to the bottom from the same wire, Also if it's the same circuit you would only need one gfci outlet, If the first outlet on the circuit is a gfci then all the rest would be protected also

Answer 3

When you are connecting your "normal" outlets, you should put all of your black wires together under one wire nut. In that grouping of wires, include a short wire that you can attach to the receptacle. That is referred to as a "pigtail" & you do that with your whites and grounds also. You don't need to feed-through your receptacles (putting two black wires and two white wires on the receptacle itself). Black wires go to your brass colored screw and whites go to the silver colored screw and grounds to the grounding screw. There is no need to differentiate between incoming and outgoing wires at that point. The wires on a normal receptacle are common to each other.
You should pigtail your GFCI receptacles also just pay attention to keep the line side seperate from the loads. All normal receptacles wired on the load side of the GFCI will be protected from that GFCI receptacle.

Answer 4

if you look at a duplex receptacle you will see that the top and bottom screws on either side are same connection unless connecting bar is removed to "split"the receptcle. Therefore as long as you keep hot and neutral connections on respesctive brass color and silver color terminals ..not an issue.