Wall Outlet Diagram
The green screw obviously ties to the bare ground wire.
Wall outlet diagram. Standard wall outlet receptacle wiring. This is a polarized device. Also shown is the half of the receptacle that is live at all times and the tab that must be cut in order to split the receptacles. Wiring a grounded duplex receptacle outlet.
In the diagram below a 2 wire nm cable supplies line voltage from the electrical panel to the first receptacle outlet box. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. Switched split outlet wiring diagram for controlling the half of two duplex electrical receptacles by a wall switch without a neutral conductor.
The hot black wire should connector to the brass colored screw. Any break or malfunction in one outlet will cause all the other outlets to fail. When wiring a wall outlet the neutral white wire should connect to the white or silver metal screw. Don t use this receptacle when no ground wire is.
This repeats until the end of the chain. This is a standard 15 amp 120 volt wall receptacle outlet wiring diagram. Multiple outlet in serie wiring diagram. For wiring in series the terminal screws are the means for passing voltage from one receptacle to another.
The long slot on the left is the neutral contact and the short slot is the hot contact. To wire multiple outlets follow the circuit diagrams posted in this article. The black wire line and white neutral connect to the receptacle terminals and another 2 wire nm that travels to the next receptacle. This wiring diagram illustrates adding wiring for a light switch to control an existing wall outlet.