OK I'm electrical stupid so please don't show me diagrams and stuff hahaha. I have a string of light bulb fixtures around the garage and an outlet on the ceiling I want a couple shop lights plugged in.. So I got a stack switch... One for the lights one for the outlet. I think I can figure it out but all the videos I see have 2 black and 2 gold screws.. Mine has 4 gold.. So if I'm correct.. I have a wire running from the breaker or always hot.. To one side, and the hot wire from the outlet on one of the other side screws, and the hot from the lights on the other screw, correct? And I bundle the white wires together and don't connect them to the switch, and connect the grounds to the green screw on the switch.. Right? Which side gets the power from the breaker?
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how to wire this switch..
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This is the switch.. All 4 screws are gold so I don't know where to put the main hot wire from the breaker
http://www.menards.com/main/electri...ole-1-pole-toggle-switch/p-1401751-c-6324.htm
http://www.menards.com/main/electri...ole-1-pole-toggle-switch/p-1401751-c-6324.htm
laser3kw
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This product is a standard combination two single pole toggle switch (grounding).
the unit is 2 separate switches, one top, one bottom. The gold screws are like wise, the set on top for the top switch, the set on the bottom for the bottom switch. The switch is a pass through device, not polarity sensitive. Use consistent wiring practices - if you put the feed for the top switch on the left side, do the same with the bottom switch. The other side will go to the designated load.
green screw connected back to load center ground bar as a safety for the switch box/ switch frame.
Mustang51js
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All grounds go together then a tail, otherwise you won't have a ground to the light. But the black wires from the outlets go the gold screws not seen in the pic,that's the switch legs for the outlets, the other side of the switch will have two screws but also a tab connecting the two, so you put the feed on that side. Don't remove the tab unless you plan to have two separate feeds on the switch. You are correct all whites get nutted together and tucked in the back.