How to Wire a Circuit Where the Switch Controls the Power to an Outlet

Very helpful- I’m a DIYer who inherited a partially finished, wrongly configured shed on my property and I used your video to make it right. Thanks!

Excellent VERY CLEAR explanation. Thanks for putting that on a board like that rather than showing a real life example (which is too hard to see clearly)

Always a great learning opportunity when you post a video!!!! Thanks so much!!!! God bless you and yours!!!!

Excellent!! Best example of how to set up your connections. Thanks for posting. I learned a lot.

Excellent instruction

Thank you for sharing this information!!! You really break it down for a beginner to understand.

Great all encompassing lesson thanks for the full explanation

Very well explained! Thanks!! This helps a lot!

Fantastic! Thank you!

great video this was very helpful thanks.

You teaching abilities are amazing!!!!!!! You broke it on down to kindergarden level

Thanks

Great teaching. im gonna install a fan in my living room, but i would like to know where to intercept the power on this type of setup

Good job u made that easy don’t know how many videos make it such mess

Great video! My house has an outlet in it where only the top plug runs off the switch and the bottom plug is always hot. Just recently, I removed my garbage disposal that was plugged into the outlet so I could perform some maintenance on it. When I went to plug it back in, it turned on despite the switch being off. Both plugs are now hot all the time. I tested the switch with a meter and it's good but I'm not sure about the outlet. The new outlet has four places to plug into, two on the left and two on the right, plus the green for the earth ground. The wires I'm looking at are red, black, white, and copper earth ground. I won't mention the copper wire because there's no doubt where that goes. The old outlet had red and black on the right and white on the left. I noticed that the new outlet has continuity at both connection points on the left and the right where as the old one only had continuity on the left. Removable tab? I think I see it but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'm still messing with it but since I liked your video, I thought I'd ask you and see if you could add that little tidbit to it.

This is awesome, what would do differently if I wanted to turn my outlet to a junction box. Currently I plug my basement ceiling light into an outlet. I want to wire it so I can use a switch to turn them on and off. I'm in western pennsylvania and there's two rooms in my basement that don't have wired ceiling lights but I want to, then run them to a switch

I have a switch that controls my lights and the outlet underneath I should I bypass it to let the outlet always be hot and the light switch to still turn lights on and off

never enough!

Thank you Brett. Good explanation. My question is detecting is the power comes to the switch or the plug first. It's hard to tell. Do you use a non contract tester to check that?❤

Could this be done in the same box? I would like to put this together in my garage without adding another box.