Fun Wiring Two Outlets In Series

Follow this procedure for all but the last outlet in the circuit.

Wiring two outlets in series. They only need to be a few inches long. Black hot wire to a gold colored terminal screw. There will be a black white and bare or green wire.

Electrical electricalwiring electricalcode how to install an outlet in series or parallel. After the converters its piped inside into two 3 phase panels one for each phase converter. In this diagram wall outlets are wired in a row using the terminal screws to pass voltage from one receptacle to the next.

Connect the black wires to the brass terminals on the outlet you re wiring connect the ground wires to the ground terminal then twist the white wires together and cap them. Follow this procedure for all but the last outlet in the circuit. Using this method any break or malfunction at one outlet will likely cause all the outlets that follow to fail as well.

If the first outlet in the circuit is damaged internally in some way it may affect the flow of electricity to the outlets that follow. Run the romex up in through the bottom of the first outlet box and remove 6 inches of the outer insulation to separate the three wires inside. If youre wiring an outlet in the middle of a chain of outlets youll have two cables in the outlet box.

If you wanted to ignore code and wire your outlets in series the procedure would be the same. Came off the big single phase panel outside each converter has its own breaker. With this arrangement if receptacle 1 fails receptacle 2 may also fail.

This video explains the difference in electrical installation. Wiring outlets together using the device terminals instead of a pigtail splice as shown in the next diagram can create a weakest link problem. Each 3ph machine outlet has its own breaker.