Split Receptacle Wiring A Switched Outlet. A 3 wire nm cable connects from the switch box to the split receptacle box. The red wire carries switched line to the switched half of the split receptacle.
The black wire carries line to the always hot half of the split receptacle. In the standard wiring configuration for a switched split wired receptacle a two wire cable with a hot neutral and ground supplies power to the switch or receptacle and three wire cable with red and black hot wires and a white neutral then brings power from the switch to the split receptacle where the tab between the hot terminals on the receptacle is removed. How to wire a switch receptacle.
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How to wire a switch receptacle. In the drawings below only the tab on the line side of the outlet is cut because the top and bottom are using the same neutral. The outlet body itself is not physically split. The black wire carries line to the always hot half of the split receptacle.
