[Scorpio52]

Hello,

I am trying to wife a GFCI outlet that is controlled downstream by a switch but am unsure how to go about it. This is for my garbage disposal and I don't want to wire a half-hot outlet as that is now against code. Can a GFCI outlet be controlled by a light switch?

Thank you.

 

[Oso954]

There is no problem switching a GFCI receptacle, but the switch must be upstream (electrically) of the GFCI.

 

[Scorpio52]

Would you be able to type out or have a diagram for wiring the switch to control the GFCI, please?

 

[jbfan]

Would you be able to type out or have a diagram for wiring the switch to control the GFCI, please?

Take the hot and neutral to the switch box, connect the hot to one terminal of the switch.

Take a hot and neutral from the switch box to the receptacle.

Connect the hot to the other terminal of the switch, and connect the neutrals together.

At the receptacle, connect the hot to the line side hot of the gfci, and the neutral to the line side of the gfci.

 

[Scorpio52]

Thank you. New installation code is requiring a neutral in switch boxes. Would I just use a 12-2 from panel to switch then a 12-3 from switch to GFCI then?

 

[joed]

If you only want the GFCI switched and there is no unswitched feed to another part of the circuit from the GFCI then you don't need 3 wire cable.

 

[Scorpio52]

So this should do the trick?

 

[Scorpio52]

My neutral and hot should be switched on the GFCI though

 

[jbfan]

My neutral and hot should be switched on the GFCI though

That's it.

 

[jeffmattero76]

My neutral and hot should be switched on the GFCI though

The neutral is NEVER switched, only the hot is switched.

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[Jim Port]

The neutral is spliced through at the switch.

 

[joed]

I think he meant swap the wires as in the terminals not switched by a switch.

 

[Scorpio52]

Yes, sorry. I meant swapped around in my drawing at the terminals. The rest of the diagram the same.