Light Switch Wiring Diagram Red Black White. The white wires tie together with a wire nut. When there is an extra hot wire it is red.
The lower left screw is the common and gets the black wire from the load 3 cond. Ground wires are either left bare or covered with green insulation. Basic knowledge of how to wire a light switch.
The ground wire also connects to the switch but the white wire gets spliced to the circuit neutral wire and bypasses the switch.
The black wire to sw2 is connected to the hot on the receptacle and to the common on sw2 at the other end. The different colors of electrical wires indicate the function of the wire with black and red indicating the wires carry electric current white usually indicating neutral charge and green indicating the wire is grounded. The upper left screw gets the red wire from the left box 4 cond. At the outlet the travelers are spliced to run to sw2 using the red and white wires in that cable.
