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. 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 the hot wire to the other terminal. This splits the outlet so each half functions independently. Strip about 10 inches of plastic sheathing from the new cable to expose the black white and copper wires.

The source hot at the switch is spliced with the red cable wire to the outlet and a pigtail to the switch. Put the light fixture to the side for the time being. Start by taking your screwdriver and removing the two black wires attached to the light switch. This way the outlet is wired and controlled on off through the switch.

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. Pull the fixture away from the wall or ceiling and disconnect it from the existing wall ceiling wiring by undoing the wire nuts connecting the wires. The second terminal of switch then connected back to the brass terminal of outlet. In this case you must change the cable from the switch to the light outlet from a 2 wire to a 3 wire cable.

As you can see connecting a receptacle to the light would see the receptacle only hot when the light switch is on. Twist the three wires together clockwise and screw on a wire cap then connect the short wire back to the switch. At the receptacle the red connects to the top half of the outlet. When that s done you can treat the cable coming from the outlet into the switch box as a regular line cable.

Three wire cable runs from the switch to the outlet providing two hot wires to that location. Lastly remove the ground wire from the green screw. Twist the white wires together and cap them and connect the ground wires to the ground terminal. 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.

Rewire the existing electrical outlet connect the wires of the new cable to the existing wires. Step 3 run a new stretch of wiring from the light fixture to where you ll be locating the outlet. Finally connect the neutral and ground wire as shown in the fig. Always connect the white wire to the neutral terminal of outlets and light fixtures.

The neutral terminal is always marked. Don t worry about which black wire goes where. Turning off the switch simply disconnects the power wire from the light fixture cutting off power from your lights. Here is what you would have to do if possible change out the 2 wire to 3 wire cable from switch to light.