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Charles (in GA)

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Give us a few hints. Where does the power from the breaker enter the circuit, at the outlet, the light, or the switch? Is the outlet hot all the time? Or is it to be switched off and on with the light?

Charles
 
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Dan0myte

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This is probably what he's trying to do, unswitched outlet on a switched light circuit.

No ground is shown in this diagram...
 

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Salem747

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Rather than bother with 14/3 wouldn't it be easier to go to the outlet first, then the switch? That's how I did my garage wiring.

Also how would the unswitched line in the 14/3 be energized? Just double up on the connection before the switch?
 

realred2

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I'm going to be installing a Fan and lights in my garage and would like to run them from the ceiling outlet (for the door opener, thats not being used) I want to put in a 3 gang box with Fan control, then light switch, then outlet as there is currently only a single outlet in the garage. I think if I run 14-2 from the ceiling outlet to the Fan outlet, then 14-3 from fan to 3gang box, I can get everything working right. Does this sound like it will work to everyone else?
Ceiling outlet ..............Fan.................... Switches/outlet on wall
black...........to........black(bypass fan).............to fan switch (and pigtailed to others)
white...........to..............white.......................to white for outlet
##........................Red to black on fan............to switched out put

And a second line of 14/2 for the lighting off the light switch?

Maybe this helps... yellow = white line/nuetral
fanlightoutlet.jpg


Any help?
 
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