Connect the source wire to the bottom terminal of the switch and the other black wire to the top terminal. White wire this is the neutral wire.
Electrical Basics Wiring A Basic Single Pole Light Switch
How to wire a light switch to a light. The source neutral wire is spliced to the neutral on the receptacle half of the combo device and to the white cable wire running to the light. Switch box wiring at the switch box the white neutral wires are spliced together and the ground wires are spliced and a pigtail wire is added and attached to the green ground screw on the light switch frame. Basic knowledge of how to wire a light switch. In this picture you can see the strip gauge on the back of the switch. Two wire cable runs from the combo to the light fixture and the switch output is connected to the black wire running to the fixture hot terminal. The most common requirement of any hardwired automated light switch is a neutral wire.
Red wire this wire is used for 3 or 4 way switches and will connect the switches together so they can each control your lights. Bare copper green wire this is your ground wire. You need to connect your neutral wire to light socket and hot wire to the switch and from the switch you connect the wire to light bulb socket other free terminal and ground wire to the one way switch earthling point as i shown in the below diagram. This gauge is when you want to use the quick connect method when wiring a light switch. Yes there are a few read very very very few switches that dont require a neutral but those will limit you to incandescent only. Wiring of a light switch is very simple and easy connection.
Well youre in the right place. At the light it connects to the neutral terminal. Black wire this is the hot or load wire. Simply strip the wire to the length specified and push the wire into the hole. The incoming power from the outlet is attached to one of the light switch screw terminals and the black wire of the cable leading to the.
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