How to install a electric wall outlet? I am replacing all my outlets to a up to date color...
I am replacing all my outlets to a up to date color and i am having a problem. I enjoy installed many different outlets, mostly just by taking the hoary one out, and putting the wires where the be on the old one and put them on the trial one. I have run into a problem though with one of my outets however. The outlet is connected to a wall switch so that you can turn the reading light on with the switch through the outlet. There are 3 wires, Black, White, and Yellow. I hooked it up the exact agency that the older one be hooked up. Black on the hot wire side, White on different side, and the Yellow on the other vacant screw on the hot side. This works near the old outlet, but not near the new outlet. It get power with the latest outlet, but the switch does not control it. Do i need to get hold of a special kind of outlet, or am i hooking it up wrong?
Answers: Turn your switch to the side so that the two screw are showing and wires going into each. Usually, this is the side BLACK chain goes into.
NOTICE, nearby is a metral strip going across from one screw to the next right at the screw. It looks close to a tab. Grab this tab with a double act of needle feeler and rock it back and forth to break it.
I am assuming that solely one plug of the two was controlled from your switch and the other be powered all the time. If this is the casing all you inevitability to do is shut off the power remove the tab between the 2 screw where the wires hook on ( black and yellow) it will break rotten when you wiggle it stern and forth. this should solve your problem.
Good luck