Single Pole Socket Wiring

The other terminal is for a second hot wire called a switch leg that runs only between the switch and the light fixture.

Single pole socket wiring. A double pole switch is what you need to control a 240 volt device because 240 volt circuits have two hot wires. I think that is what you are describing and whether the switching arrangements sockets are single pole or double pole doesn t matter. What i need to know is how to wire the earth cables and which ones go into which earth terminal. Single pole switching does not produce this effect and it is known that changing.

They have two screw terminals plus a ground screw. Double pole switching within the fixed wiring is known to produce a strange phenomenon whereby switching off a double pole switch supplied through an rcd can cause the rcd to trip. It has four terminals. The earth is still connected and on a single pole switch the neutral is still connected.

On a radial the sockets have two cables one in from the previous socket and one out to the next socket with the exception of the last one in the run which only has one cable in. The double pole light switch also has on and off markings and like the single pole also turns off lights from a single location. Single pole or double for switched sockets may 24 2005 1. Two for incoming hots and two for outgoing hots.

For the benefit of the original poster sigle pole isolates only the live wire the neutral stays connected. The difference between a single and double pole switch is that the latter controls two circuits at the same time. Double pole switches and wiring. One screw terminal is for the hot wire that feeds the switch from the power source.

Single pole switches are the most common light switches in a home.