How To Wire A Wall Plug From A Light Switch

Keep the wires separate.

How to wire a wall plug from a light switch.

Disconnect the wires from the existing switch with a screwdriver. Running electrical wire behind a wall is a great way to add an additional outlet or light switch in your home. Run the new cable with sheathing at least two inches up inside the box and double over the excess wires to help hold the cable in place. Connect this jumper wire back to the switch terminal.

Twist the three wires together clockwise and screw on a wire cap then connect the short wire back to the switch. Remove the black line wire from the switch twist it together with the black wire going to the receptacle and add a six inch length of black wire of the same gauge. The black wire from the switch connects to the hot on the receptacle. Here are the step by step instructions on what s involved.

The wire from the top terminal should be positioned differently from the wire from the bottom terminal. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. If that s the case you ll only have one black wire one white wire and a ground wire connected to the outlet. The white neutral from the source is connected directly to the light fixture.

Connect the black wire coming from the light fixture not the hot wire to either one of the black screws on the switch it doesn t matter in this case. Strip about 10 inches of plastic sheathing from the new cable to expose the black white and copper wires. The hot from the source is spliced to the black wire running to the combo and to the input side of the switch. Skip to collection list skip to video grid.

Now remove the wire cap from the two white wires in the box add the white wire from the outlet and reset the cap. Please see the wiring diagrams section of the website for further assistance and visual drawings. Some switches will have slots that you can slide a straight wire into and tighten it down with the screw which is definitely easier than wrapping the hooked wire around the screw. To control a receptacle outlet from a switch take a 2 wire cable from the outlet to the switch.

6 strip insulation away on each wire to expose 3 8 inch 0 9525 cm of wire. Source 1 comes in at the light fixture and a 3 wire cable is run from there to the switch half on the device. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. Create a splice at the outlet to feed the power leg out to the switch and back down to the outlet where the return wire is attached to the outlet.

The exception here is if the outlet that s controlled by the light switch is only connected to that light switch and there aren t any other wires. Disconnect the live wire from the switch and splice it together with the black wire going to your new outlet adding a 6 inch length of spare black wire of the same gauge to make a pigtail.