Turn the power on and make sure everything works properly before installing the cover plates. Run a strip of electrical tape around the edges of both the outlet and the switch to insulate their wire connections too.Ĭarefully press the outlet and switch into their respective boxes. Step 12: Wrap each wire nut firmly with electrical tape. Step 11: Attach the black wire running from the switch to one of the gold screws on the outlet. Step 10: Twist the disconnected hot wire from the outlet and the red wire running from the switch into a wire nut. With the switch on, you are shorting out all four black and red wires to each other. It's about two and a half, three inches long, and we're stripping off a good 3/4 of an inch of one side of that wire. And so what we're going to do is we have a wire that's about the right length. Twist the other end into a wire nut with the white wire running from the switch and the disconnected neutral wire. The way a switch works is it either shorts out its two terminals, or it does not. So the first wire that we're going to connect will be to connect the two motors together. Step 9: Attach the other jumper wire to one of the silver screws on the outlet. Twist the other end of the jumper wire into a wire nut with the green wire running from the switch and the disconnected ground wire. Attach one jumper wire to the outlet’s grounding screw. Metal push button switches are called push buttons for short, which are usually used to switch on or off the control circuit. Step 7: Shut the power supply back off and disconnect the green ground wire, the black hot wire and the white neutral wire from the outlet. Disconnect the wires from the existing switch with a screwdriver. Measure the height, width, and depth of the electrical box in place to determine if your new light switch will fit. Step 6: Turn the power supply back on and use the voltage sensor to identify the hot and neutral wires connected to the outlet. Unscrew the top and bottom of the switch in place, and remove it gently from the box. Step 5: Use a voltage sensor to confirm that there is no power running to the outlet. Also, and trying not to be rude, but you clearly dont know what you are doing and experimenting is a very bad thing to do when it comes to line voltage electricity. Youll need to run an additional cable to your outlet to get it continuous power. Step 4: Remove the outlet cover plate, unscrew the outlet mounting screws and pull the outlet out from inside the electrical box. The switch turns on power to the fixture and turns it off. Step 3: Use the circuit breaker or fuse in the electrical panel to shut off the power supply to the outlet the switch will be connected to. Use a wire nut to cap off the unattached white wire end. Connect the black wire to the gold screw and the red wire to the silver screw. Step 2: In the switch box, connect the green wire to the grounding screw on the switch.
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