How to hook up wires to a outlet that goes to a switch for garbage disposal.
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03-11-11, 11:01 AM
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How to hook up wires to a outlet that goes to a switch for garbage disposal.
Hello,
I have a bare wire, white, black and red ( the red is the only hot one.) The outlet is under the kitchen sink, the dishwasher and garbage disposal will plug into this outlet. this outlet will go to a switch with a white and black wire to control the garbage disposal. The question how to hook up the wires to the outlet under the sink? Help would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS! Dennis
I have a bare wire, white, black and red ( the red is the only hot one.) The outlet is under the kitchen sink, the dishwasher and garbage disposal will plug into this outlet. this outlet will go to a switch with a white and black wire to control the garbage disposal. The question how to hook up the wires to the outlet under the sink? Help would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS! Dennis
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03-11-11, 11:37 AM
I have a bare wire, white, black and red ( the red is the only hot one.)
Was this a working circuit or new circuit. If new circuit I can suggest how it could be wired but I'm not quite following your explanation.
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Not sure where red wire came from, This was a working outlet for dishwasher and garbage disposal plugs. I lost power at the switch black and white wire that controls garbage disposal.
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03-11-11, 01:35 PM
I lost power at the switch black and white wire that controls garbage disposal.
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When the garbage disposal did not work when I tried the switch to on, I had no voltage there when metered. I took the wires apart at the switch and outlet. I have a new outlet, I hooked the bare wire to a ground, the white wire to the top left silver screw, the black wire to the top right brass screw and the red hot wire to the bottom right brass screw. I also clipped out the tab between the two brass screws. The switch wires now read 110 between them. I
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03-11-11, 05:30 PM
The switch wires now read 110 between them
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Sorry, for some reason my full information you did not recieve. I do have the dishwasher pluged into the bottom and the garbage disposal pluged into the top of the outlet, you are right when I had nothing pluged into the top of the outlet I had no power at the switch. I hooked up a new switch with the white and black and the on off switch is runing like it should. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELR, GREATLY APPRECIATED!
