Fold the wires neatly into the box.

Wiring dimmer switch to outlet.

Three wire cable runs between the switches and the outlet. The black wire to sw2 is connected to the hot on the. 3 way switches are also marked with four wires in the wall outlet. Try cranking the dimmer to max. Screw the dimmer to the box with the screws provided. Make sure the electricity.

If the lamp doesn t work the issue may be in the dimmer or in the wiring. A ground wire a hot lead wire and two travelers to allow for a connection to another switch or outlet. How to change a dimmer switch to a normal switch warning. If the lamp works you have a functioning circuit and you can just replace the dimmer. The black wire from the switch connects to the hot on the receptacle. And plugging in a dimmable lamp.

If it doesn t work replacing the dimmer with a switch may not give you a working outlet depending on what s causing it to not work. Take extreme caution while working with electricity. Another nm cable connects from this dimmer box to the light fixture box. The red and black wires running from sw1 to the outlet are used as travelers. The source is at the outlet and a switch loop is added to a new switch. At the outlet the travelers are spliced to run to sw2 using the red and white wires in that cable.

You can connect a dimmer switch. It doesn t matter if you reverse the two switch wires to a single pole dimmer. Finish the job by installing the cover plate and turning on the power to test the new dimmer. The hot source wire is removed from the receptacle and spliced to the red wire running to the switch. The white wire is marked black on both ends to identify it as hot. Wiring an outlet to a switch loop.

Both line and neutral travel from the switch box to the light fixture box. If you have any doubts in any step contact a. The design of the gfi includes hot and neutral line terminals in which the power supply is connected and load terminals where additional electrical devices such as other outlets or lighting may be connected. Gfi ground fault interrupter outlets sense amperage imbalances between the hot and neutral wires of an electrical circuit. The source is at the sw1 where the hot is connected to the common terminal and the neutral spliced through to the neutral on the outlet. For example a lighting fixture may be controlled by a dimmer switch with power supplied by the load terminal of the gfi.