How To Wire An Outlet In Series

The red wire switched hot wire going to the outlet wires into the other side of the switch and the white wires neutral tie together to complete the return side of the circuit.

How to wire an outlet in series. White neutral wire to a silver colored terminal screw. It is tied together with a wire going to the switch and the black wire going to the outlet. Here 3 wire cable is run from a double pole circuit breaker providing an independent 120 volts to two sets of multiple outlets. It would be against code to wire receptacles in series and there s no good reason to do it anyway.

Bare wire to the green grounding screw. Finally screw the ground or green wire to the metal screw in the box. In the first outlet box strip inch of the insulation off the ends of the wire you ve just run. Wire the new electrical outlet.

Mount the new box in the opening. The neutral wire from the circuit is shared by both sets. This wiring is commonly used in a 20 amp kitchen circuit where two appliance feeds are needed such as for a refrigerator and a microwave in the same location. Bring together the black wire that goes to the second outlet the black wire coming into the first outlet and the black tap.

The second terminal of switch then connected back to the brass terminal of outlet. The total voltage in a series circuit equals the sum of the voltage drops which means if you have something plugged into each of the receptacles the voltage of the series outlet at the end would be too low to do anything useful. Connect the new wires to the new outlet. The black wire hot wire coming in from the left is the source power.

In this wiring a switch is added to to an existing outlet by removing the hot wire from outlet brass terminal and connected to the first terminal of switch. This way the outlet is wired and controlled on off through the switch. Black hot wire to a gold colored terminal screw. Step 5 wire the series.