Wall Outlet Diagram
A grounded contact at the bottom center is crescent shaped.
Wall outlet diagram. When wiring a wall outlet the neutral white wire should connect to the white or silver metal screw. The long slot on the left is the neutral contact and the short slot is the hot contact. The black wire from the switch connects to the hot on the receptacle. For wiring in series the terminal screws are the means for passing voltage from one receptacle to another.
This is a polarized device. The green screw obviously ties to the bare ground wire. The black wire line and white neutral connect to the receptacle terminals and another 2 wire nm that travels to the next receptacle. The hot black wire should connector to the brass colored screw.
Multiple outlet in serie wiring diagram. This is a standard 15 amp 120 volt wall receptacle outlet wiring diagram. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. This repeats until the end of the chain.
Standard wall outlet receptacle wiring. To wire multiple outlets follow the circuit diagrams posted in this article. Don t use this receptacle when no ground wire is. In the diagram below a 2 wire nm cable supplies line voltage from the electrical panel to the first receptacle outlet box.
Any break or malfunction in one outlet will cause all the other outlets to fail. There is a tab between each of the screws of similar color. This wiring diagram illustrates adding wiring for a light switch to control an existing wall outlet. Wiring a grounded duplex receptacle outlet.