Single Pole Switch Lighting Circuits - How to wire a light switch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2019
- How to wire a single pole light switch, in this video we look at how a single pole light switch works and the different ways to wire a light circuit. This is the most basic light circuit using just a single pole light switch.
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Hey question about this video please! The very last example shows neutral being terminated inside of the switch box. Why is that? Is that because you would splice into the hot wire so you have both neutral and hot there in the box?
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@@misternormL It's a new electrical code requirement to future-proof for smart switches in the wall. I talked more about it in another comment here.
Why is it that you prefer to put the line wire or incoming power on the bottom terminal of the switch? Its strange because most electricians ik who have a preference will say to put it on the top terminal. If you answer, I will definitely buy you a coffee.
Thank you for you simple explanation with minimal introduction along with clear diagrams. Extremely well done!! You've earned a subscriber for sure.
I'm wiring my kids bedroom this coming week and this will help a ton
I’m a first year electrician and you have really helped me strive in my development electrical career!! Thank you!!! Keep up the great videos
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2 years later just curious what level your at now ?
Same here, just started second year and realized I didn't know how to wire a switch!
Same here broski! I hope yours gone well so far!
You finally allowed me to finish my diy lighting project in my garage that I've fumbled with for two years. Thank you very much!
Excuse the following "manplanation": I just bought a gutted house from the city of Detroit and it's over 100 years old. Needless to say, there's a lot of work to do. I ran some lights (once DTE Energy decided to come turn on the power) just so I could see, but I didn't include any switches. I've popped a circuit trying to install a switch AFTER the light and power source. Your video is so straightforward and easy to understand and follow. Thank you so much for making the content you do. You've definitely saved me a lot of headache.
THANK YOU Paul!!!! This video is exactly what I needed to wrap my head around this concept!
Is there a reason why in the second illustration you are connecting the black and white wire together at the light instead of running both neutrals to the light and the black wires to the wire nut?
Excellent video. For those that have trouble understanding Loop switch connections, the second example spells it out perfectly.
Excellent video. The diagrams make the concept crystal clear. Thank you.
Thank you!! First video I’ve seen about wiring a switch that explained the how of why a switch works. A light bulb finally went off in my head too!! You’re the best. I can now reword my switch and stop tripping the breaker!! My hero!
Excellent instruction. I came across the second wiring setup today while trying to find a fault causing my light to flicker.
I was fairly sure I understood the proper wiring but fairly sure isn’t good enough when it comes to wiring.
Thanks to this video I am confident.
Did you find the cause of the flickering? I'm having the same issue with a bathroom light
I did. It was a loose connection in the light fixture - the wire nut was poorly installed.
I did not do the original installation.
Simple and very well explained. Good job and thank you.
I watched many practical videos on wiring a single pole switch and light in preparation to expand a switch from a 1 gang box to a 2 gang box and wire 2 separate lights. This has helped me understand more clearly the 3 types of switch wiring I may run into. Thanks for the wonderful video and easy explanation!!!
Your expertise and video made it happen!!!!!!
Took me 15 minutes !!!!
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Excellent video. I followed this to wire up a light in our storage room. Before this video, I had NO IDEA how to do it. Much appreciated. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the video, I was going crazy trying to get the light switch to work
I'm going around the house ensuring every room has a GFCI at the first outlet bringing electricity into the room since my house has no grounding and ran into a situation in which my GCFI would trip. Solved that, then my breaker would trip. Then came to this video rearranged the wiring according to this one of these setups and voila!!! Fixed! Thanks a lot for your videos!!
That perfect pic at 1:29 is all I needed
Thank you! Just wired the switch in my room by myself
Great video my friend, very useful, thank you very much for sharing, keep safe
Now that was the simple explanation w diagram I needed!
Thank you for making videos like this ; - ; I'm in Electrical Trades during quarantine, and I know virtually nothing wiring wise because it's the first few weeks and we had to go home for two of them already. Has me on wiring methods but I barely understand what the wires do and have been shooting in the dark ; - ; Nice teacher, thinks I'm really smart but I'm a huge "monkey see monkey do"
Best of luck buddy, how you doing now
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Clearest and most instructional video tutorial yet among YT posts.
I was re-wiring a light curcuit for weeks.
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After viewing many youtube videos your video made it clear how to fix my electrical problem. No more tripping of the circuit breaker when the wall switch is on. The ceiling fan is now installed, and it is working properly. Thanks for your info.🙂
Awesome videos!!! Great explanations and visuals!!!
Awesome video! It helps me understand the basic flow of electricity and how it works....You've provided clear and concise explanation. Thanks.
Thank you thank you thank you! I did not understand how the second scenario works. Your video was so clear in explaining it. 😊
Found this quite helpful
The third version of the switch wiring is often required in new installations in many jurisdictions as a neutral is required in all j boxes due to the increased prevalence of “smart” switches. Having this neutral is also nice should one want to add another light or receptacle to the circuit.
im switching out my old fashioned dumb light switches with smart light switches and this totally helped me understand how to do it. thanks
The first example helped me. Thank you.
you all saved the day for me!.
thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the second schematic explanation. Saved my day.
version 2 fixed my problem thank you.
Good sir, you are the paragon of instruction excellence. Gratitude.
I can’t tell you how helpful this was. Great video and new sub. Wow, installed a new light for wife and she is one happy camper.
With your video, i was able to fix my wiring for my switch!
Thanks Paul, saved me an electrician consultation.
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Easy to understand for non for non-electrician like me. Thanks helped me a lot
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Great video! Very helpful
I watched this video and was able to fix my mistake right away and finished the job correctly. Thanks for a great video.
Thank you, I found this quite educational.
Thank you. I pulled apart a bunch of wiring from an electrical box when I was adding an outlet. I didn't pay close enough attention to the original wiring and couldn't get anything to work. I used the second configuration for the switch and everything is good now. It felt so *WRONG* connecting the neutral to the hot.
I used this first method and it saved me!! Thank you
Excellent explanation, thank you
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great video
Very clear tutorial, without the excess time consumed watching someone strip the wires.
Awesome! Thank you!
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I as well found this video to be very helpful n best one out there that explains it in details n simple to follow terms. U help me out off this issue that i have been in for a week thank u very much from a new subscriber.
Awesome video! Helped me quickly fix .y mistake when installing a new ceiling fan. I could figure out why it was working but the light in the next bedroom wasnt. Thank you!
Have a question, was your setup model 3? I fixed a light fixture today but now other in the same room ain't working?
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Great explanation please do more explaining how to wire 240 volt 2 and 3 wires and why. Thank you.
240V circuits are just like 120V circuits, except there are "two hots". Either hot and the neutral make 120 volts. But the two hots connected to something without the neutral make 240V. You only need the two hots for a 240V device, like a water heater. You need the two hots and the neutral for a 240V/120V device (it uses both voltages), like a clothes dryer or an electric range.
Very good video. Question on the next version of wiring diagram, can you add outlet? Is that safe? Thank you
Great video and information. The second method is not recommended since it leaves the hot wire exposed as neutral. This is a problem in the future of anyone not knowing what the previous homeowners did.
What do you mean "it leaves the hot wire exposed as neutral"?
I think anyone with some competency will notice when a black and white are together, they must BOTH be hot. If one is changing the wiring in the light box they will see a white and black wire nutted together. There is no way that would work, obviously, unless they were both "hot". Likewise, if you go into a light switch and you see two wires. One black, one wire, if someone doesn't understand that a switch requires 2 hot wires to break/make the connection, then they should hire an electrician right away. White and black DO not go together UNLESS they are both hot or both neutral, and there's very little reason to make a black/white both neutral, but there are plenty of reasons to hot/hot if the circuit comes to an end. It is just TOO much work to feed 14/3 - 12/3 through because that might not be what is on hand at the time, and it requires an extra nut. I don't know, I would hate to be doing a job and have to go all the way out of my way to bring in 14/3 just to feed some extra wire through, when it can be done the same way, with no extra wing nut or tape, and is self explanatory. I do mark them with electrical tape. Remember, this is a light switch. You are not going to be seeing white/black connected together at all, or if that was the case it wouldn't be an on/off switch it would be just an ON switch with power going TO the switch but not coming out.
@@jonburhan5478 What you're saying makes sense, yet it doesn't answer my question.
@@icevariable9600 He just meant that a neutral (white) wire has now been exposed as hot when someone opens up the switch or light fixture box, and removes the neutral (white) and potentially shocks themselves when they complete the circuit. It's not unusual to remove the neutral without cutting the power. If someone is messing with a switch or box with the power on and doesn't recognize the white and black on the same circuit, then they shouldn't be messing with electricity, unfortunately. I think his warning is a little strange because anyone getting shocked by this sort of reverse loop switch probably don't know enough about electrical work to even attempt a basic fixture change, so they are going to get hurt no matter what with ineptitude. Any one who knows electrical work will realize straight off the bat what's going on because this reverse switch method was extremely common in the 70s-90s and when we work on houses around that period we often see at least one switch that way.
@Raymond Ray There's nothing wrong with circuit #2 shown in the video. The reason it's now illegal is because of the pain of adding a neutral to the switch box if it's needed in the future.
@@jonburhan5478 Always turn off the power. It's sorta like looking both ways before crossing the street.
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I'm a Pole and I'm single. I usually don't switch lighting circuits.
The question is can you turn anything on?
Well you have to make contact first!
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Great video Paul , where can I find the setup for the other countries that you mentioned at the start.
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Thank you so much. So what I am realizing is to add a nuetral to my lightswitch I can simply take the 2 wire cable and use that to pull a 3 wire cable through the wall and to the box then wire it up in the last configuration and now I have a neutral and power for my smart switch. I was previously think I had to run another wire which would have been a bit more work. Thanks!!!!!
If the two-wire cable was installed when the building was built, it will be anchored in too many places and will be impossible to do what you are suggesting. But, it is possible to run a new 3-wire cable and remove the 2-wire cable from service.
Jovet is right. Unless it's new construction which it doesn't sound like it.
I am a TH-cam certified master electrician now! Thanks!
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No you're not. The second example is no longer up to code!
@@jovetj What are you talking about? Recent code states YOU have to clearly mark the white wire.
@@jonburhan5478 You now have to run a neutral to the switch box, even if it's not currenetly used. Three-conductor cable is needed. The switch loop is carried on the black and red wires.
@@jovetj I haven't had any inspections failed here and I do lots of reverse switch loops with white/black, and mark my whites with black electrical tape. When did this change take place? I would think the guys checking my work would flag it if it was a problem.
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super helpfull only one snag i have the 2nd option here where the power comes into the light and i want to add another switch for my ceiling fan and one for pot lights is it possible to use pigtails on the light switch side to extend or do i have to run 2 more wires down from the box above?
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Many thanks with a question; In the second scenario where the lamp is first in the circuit; if I were to be running a series of lights on that circuit (ex: a series of 4 recessed lights in a room), would those three additional lights feed from the neutral and hot wires that are connected to the bulb in your example, or to the neutral attached to the bulb, and the hot that bypasses the bulb (connected to the white "hot" wire) traveling to the switch?
In the third example, it's better to use Black for sending power to the switch loop, and red for the switched hot after the switch.
I have a question. So I wired a ceiling fan just like the third version here. When I turn on the power the light and fan turn on but the switch does nothing to turn it off. It just stays on until I cut the power again. What am I doing wrong?? Lol
@@Air-buds You probably want to wire the fan's hot wire to the hot wire entering the box from the panel. It will also go out to the switch. Once it comes back from the switch, that wire can be connected to the "light" hot wire (which is often blue, but check the instructions). This wiring will cause the fan to be controlled only from the pull chain, and the light controlled from the switch.
Thanks for the info. Please share, why is tjere a nuetral terminated in the switch box?
Thanks for the video! Will the first version also work for using a switch to control current to a string of outlets? In that case, would the outlets downstream just be wired up normally, with the neutral wire that skips the switch being pigtailed or wired through the receptacles?
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Great videos! Do you have one for the next step of adding an outlet run from the diagram at 3:15 of this video? Not switch controlled, just an outlet run.
Like are you talking about powering a couple plugs off of the power that goes to the switch box? We try not to do that anymore,but what you do in that case is you run a wire from the switch box to your plug box,splice the neutrals,and make a pigtail with the hot from the power,and your hot for you plug wire (a pigtail is where you add a length of wire to your splice,so you can connect to a device).
Paul, we understand new NEC code says have a neutral in the switch box (for future use) even thought not used now? The first wiring method shown.
Thank you.
The first scenario provides a neutral in the switch box by default. That isn't what the Code change was designed to address. The Code change addresses the second scenario, where no neutral is sent to the switch box because the black and white wires are a _switch loop_ to control the light. The third scenario shows how it shall now be done, according to Code, with a neutral wire in the switch box even if it is not used at installation.
A bit off topic....but have you done a video on how a reversible AC motor works? Have searched your website but can not find one. If you haven't done a video on reversible AC motor consider this a request for one. I find your videos both enjoyable and educational.....Thanks for making them and keep up the good work!
3-phase is easy, you just reverse 1 set of phases. On a single phase, I would assume it has to have some circuit tech built in to reverse the AC motor.
any suggestions for adding a fixture and switch to the 2nd configuration? i think someone called it a "loop" below. they will be on the same breaker, but i need to add a fixture and change the single switch to a double. thanks so much!
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