How To Wire A Light Switch Off An Existing Outlet

This way the builtin switch control the on off operations of the receptacle in the combo device.

How to wire a light switch off an existing outlet. Step 3 run a new stretch of wiring from the light fixture to where you ll be locating the outlet. When that s done you can treat the cable coming from the outlet into the switch box as a regular line cable. Here is what you would have to do if possible change out the 2 wire to 3 wire cable from switch to light. Start by taking your screwdriver and removing the two black wires attached to the light switch.

As you can see connecting a receptacle to the light would see the receptacle only hot when the light switch is on. Rewire the existing electrical outlet connect the wires of the new cable to the existing wires. The neutral terminal is always marked. Put the light fixture to the side for the time being.

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. Don t worry about which black wire goes where. This way the outlet is wired and controlled on off through the switch. In this case you must change the cable from the switch to the light outlet from a 2 wire to a 3 wire cable.

Always connect the white wire to the neutral terminal of outlets and light fixtures. Connect the black wire to one of the switch terminals and the black wire going to the light fixture to the other switch terminal. Twist the white wires together and cap them and connect the ground wires to the ground terminal. Finally connect the neutral and ground wire as shown in the fig.

The source hot at the switch is spliced with the red cable wire to the outlet and a pigtail to the switch. Wiring a switch to an outlet in this wiring a switch is added to to an existing outlet by removing the hot wire from outlet brass terminal and connected to the first terminal of switch. Strip about 10 inches of plastic sheathing from the new cable to expose the black white and copper wires. Connect the hot wire to the other terminal.

It s usually identified by a silver or light colored screw. At the receptacle the red connects to the top half of the outlet. Three wire cable runs from the switch to the outlet providing two hot wires to that location. This splits the outlet so each half functions independently.

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. Now take a jumper wire and connect between the switch load terminal and lower hot terminal on the line side as shown in fig below. Twist the three wires together clockwise and screw on a wire cap then connect the short wire back to the switch. Lastly remove the ground wire from the green screw.