Half Hot Wiring

Preparing the switched outlet for wiring.

Half hot wiring. Using some pigtails you can attach both hot and switched hot to the top and bottom of the outlet. Chris the most often overlooked key to making a half hot outlet work is to make sure to remove the bridge or tab that is the connection between the top receptacle and the bottom receptacle on the brass or power side of the outlet. Wiring diagrams for half hot receptacles. In this video we learn how to wire a half hot receptacle which is useful if you want to control an outlet with a light switch.

The key to wiring a half hot outlet. Dave rongey has a decent set of wiring diagrams for both methods of half switched wiring. I have a receptacle where 3 pairs of 14 2 lines enter the outlet box how should this be wired. The second pair goes to a switch on the wall to control a light.

There are a number of ads on this page but i did think dave s drawings were a very good look at both wiring methods. I have pre 2011 wiring so black white and bare wire. 12 9 17 its over 9000. I want the garbage disposal controlled by the switch but need an always hot outlet.

Wiring for a half hot switched outlet. A half hot or switched outlet is a double outlet that has one half permanently on ready to provide electricity while the other half can be turned on and off via an ordinary wall switch.