Outlet Wiring Diagram

Any break or malfunction in one outlet will cause all the other outlets to fail.

Outlet wiring diagram. Switched outlet wiring diagram depicts the electrical power from the circuit breaker panel entering the switched electrical receptacle outlet box where a two wire cable goes to the switch and another two wire cable feeds power to another outlet that is live at all times. Electrical outlet boxes can have numerous nm cables going in and out. Multiple outlet in serie wiring diagram. Diagrams shown on this page are simplified for clarity.

To wire multiple outlets follow the circuit diagrams posted in this article. A grounded contact at the bottom center is crescent shaped. See actual switch box wiring diagram. The wiring diagram above shows how switched outlets are often wired.

In the diagram below a 2 wire nm cable supplies line voltage from the electrical panel to the first receptacle outlet box. The long slot on the left is the neutral contact and the short slot is the hot contact. The black wire line and white neutral connect to the receptacle terminals and another 2 wire nm that travels to the next receptacle. This is a standard 15 amp 120 volt wall receptacle outlet wiring diagram.

Don t use this receptacle when no ground wire is available. The following wiring diagrams show that multiple outlets are wired to a single pole spst switch one way or two way in us switch. For wiring in series the terminal screws are the means for passing voltage from one receptacle to another.