How To Install Gfci Outlet With Light Switch

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How to install gfci outlet with light switch. In this gfci outlet wiring and installation diagram the combo switch outlet spst single way switch and ordinary outlet is connected to the load side of gfci. Wiring ground fault interrupter and light switch. I would like to get rid of the far side switch assuming the power is fed to the switch at door and at the far side switch box install a gfci outlet to the exterior. I know i need to look for the power source but if the power is located at the near side can i use the existing wires to rewire the 1st switch to be a single pole switch and change the wires to the 2nd switch for a gfci outlet on.

Identifying the wiring for a new gfci outlet electrical question. Not gfci protecting the load. It means all the connected loads to the load terminals of gfci are protected. The existing outlet is controlled by a switch.

Diagrams include a switch to control a gfci protected garbage disposal wiring a protected light wiring a protected duplex receptacle and unprotected light with the built in switch and connecting the switch to control the gfci outlet itself. There are three wires present one red wire attached to the left side upper terminal and two white wires attached to the right side terminals. Installing a gfci outlet with a light switch on the load so i m having a nightmare of a time installing this light switch gfci outlet into a single box. Wiring a gfci outlet with combo switch outlet receptacle light switch.

The light on off operation can be controlled through the gfci switch while the ordinary outlet is directly connected to the gfci load terminals. If the power goes to the fixture box then you only need 2 conductors to the switch and wire it to interrupt the hot wire in the ceiling fixture that is white in to white on the fixture then black to the switch to either term on the switch and white to the other side of the switch then the white wire from the switch goes to the black on the light fixture. I am replacing an ungrounded 2nd generation duplex outlet with a gfci outlet. With this arrangement a receptacle switch and disposal are protected with the ground fault breaker built into the device.

I m by no means an electrician but i ve been installing new outlets including gfci throughout the house without much of an issue. Wiring a gfci outlet with switched garbage disposal. Wiring a gfci combo switch outlet with protected light outlet receptacle in this special case wiring diagram both light and ordinary outlet is connected to the load terminals of gfci.