Unique Single Pole Wiring

In a home you re likely to come across four possible types of light switches.

Single pole wiring. Both a single pole and 2 pole switch will have the words off and. The live hot wire which is usually black connects to one terminal the outgoing hot wire connects to the other one and when the switch is off the circuit is broken. How to wire a 3 way dimmer with wire leads in a single pole application.

While there are various styles they typically have on off markings on a toggle switch to denote whether power is flowing to the device. When you wire a switch to a 120 volt circuit it functions to interrupt a single hot wire. The most notable way to identify if a light fixture is turned on from only one location without taking anything apart is to look at the switch itself.

A single pole a 2 pole a 3 way and a 4 way. If you examine any single pole light switch your house you ll see its two brass terminals and the ground screw. Excluding the ground screws on all of these switches a single pole has 2 terminals a 2 pole has 4 a 3 way has 3 and a 4 way has 4.

The switches have two screw terminals plus a ground screw. You would use one of the dark colored screws with one of t. One black wire comes from the power source and the other goes to the light s.

You can wire a 3 way switch as a sigle pole switch by finding which screw terminals work together. A 2 wire feed is pulled from the nearest source of power like a receptacle or the panel to the switch. Level beginner description power a hot and a neutral is fed to the switch with 1 switch leg run from the switch to 1 light.

The most simple and common method of wiring a single pole switch. The circuit s bare ground wire if there is one is connected to the green. In this video i show how to wire and install a single pole switch.