How To Switch Hot And Neutral Wires In Roof

The neutral wires are spliced and a black wire connects to each switch terminal.

How to switch hot and neutral wires in roof.

Two cables enter the switch box one supplying power and one going to the fixture. Instead of running a separate pigtail from the hot wire to each switch just leave the hot wire extra long. The hot wire carries the power from your home s service panel to all of your light fixtures switches and outlets. Before doing so note that the mains lead is cut in two with one end being shorter than the other.

To connect the switches simply score the wire with your wire stripper and push the insulation to expose about 3 4 in. This one just demonstrates where the power is in a circuit and where you can have a hot neutral. As mentioned above you will see many wires on the rear side of a motion sensor light switch. In both cases i have used solder on the wire.

The feed wire the hot wire coming from the service panel runs to the switch before it goes to the fixture. Connect the last switch in the usual manner looping the wire around the screw in a clockwise direction. The hot neutral and ground wires. Each plays an important role in getting electricity where it needs to go safely.

The standard wiring configuration uses three cables or wires. This video is part of the heating and cooling series of trai. Now we are onto striping the wires soldering putting on the heatshrink and then wiring the switch. In basic installations you will only need to worry about connecting three wires.

With power through wiring power enters the switch box. The hotwire the neutral wire and the ground wire. 110v on a runner hot wire goes into a switch then out to a light socket then through the lamp out the neutral side of the socket on the wire back to the neutral bus.