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07-08-2012, 08:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Wiring problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by stickboy1375
at the switch location, wire all the whites together including your new cable, wire all the blacks and red together, EXCEPT the black from your new cable, that wire goes to the switch, then add a pigtail from the previous blacks and red splice to feed the switch.
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Can't he just leave the blacks wired through and buy new plugs so the top and bottom have power and use the red to power his switch?
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07-08-2012, 08:15 PM
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#17
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E2 Electrician
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Litchfield, CT
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Wiring problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wirepuller
Can't he just leave the blacks wired through and buy new plugs so the top and bottom have power and use the red to power his switch?
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Why would you want to do it that way?
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07-08-2012, 08:38 PM
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#18
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Newbie
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Wiring problem
Ya if he's actually using that switch for his plugs that makes no sense. Threw my bias in there I don't have a need for plugs on a switch.
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07-08-2012, 10:17 PM
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#19
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
This is an older house, if I could go through the house and take all the switches off the plugs, I'd be all over it. too much work though.
I have everything hooked back up, but now I'm wondering how to get the switch to run the wire going to the center of the room.
I have tried to hook the blacks together on one side of the switch, whites together, then the red in the other side of the switch. It seems that the light fixture is getting constant power even with the switch off.
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07-08-2012, 10:19 PM
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#20
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
The main thing I want to do, is add a ceiling light to the existing setup. Using the same switch. If possible.
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07-09-2012, 12:00 PM
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#21
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
Anyone have any idea how I could do this?
Even if I put the switch on both the light fixture and the outlet?
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07-09-2012, 12:15 PM
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#22
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Electrical Contractor
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Newnan GA
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Wiring problem
You have to run another wire from te light to the switch.
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07-09-2012, 12:21 PM
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#23
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
I have ran the wire, do I wire it exactly like I do with the outlet?
I tie all the white together, all black, (except my new wire, that would go to one side of the switch, right?) and red in the other side of the switch? Is this correct?
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07-09-2012, 12:42 PM
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#24
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MarginallyQualified
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Winston-Salem NC
Posts: 2,553
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Wiring problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tdsgraffiti
I have ran the wire, do I wire it exactly like I do with the outlet?
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Post a new picture of what you now have in the switch box.
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07-09-2012, 12:43 PM
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#25
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
Ok, I will have to do this once I get home tonight. Just at work right now.
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07-09-2012, 06:13 PM
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#26
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
Here are the new wires.
Black, red, and white (from panel)
Black and white (to receptacle)
Black and white (to junction box on the ceiling)
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07-09-2012, 06:21 PM
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#27
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E2 Electrician
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Litchfield, CT
Posts: 3,086
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Wiring problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tdsgraffiti
Here are the new wires.
Black, red, and white (from panel)
Black and white (to receptacle)
Black and white (to junction box on the ceiling)
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Are you positive the 3 wire goes to the panel? so your receptacles still work with this taken apart like this?
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07-09-2012, 06:42 PM
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#28
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
Yeah, I'm positive it goes to the panel, and no, nothing works right now, I just took it apart to separate the wires for the picture
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07-09-2012, 06:54 PM
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#29
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E2 Electrician
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Litchfield, CT
Posts: 3,086
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Wiring problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tdsgraffiti
Yeah, I'm positive it goes to the panel, and no, nothing works right now, I just took it apart to separate the wires for the picture
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And this was an existing switch? I'm going to just assume the red wire was just coiled up in the back of the box then and never used?
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07-09-2012, 06:57 PM
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#30
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 40
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Wiring problem
It was an existing switch.
The red wire was originally hooked up. The switch operated one receptacle, which a light was plugged into.
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