Wiring Two Outlets. This feature has been the standard for a while now but if you live in a home built before the 1960s and you haven t addressed the wiring odds are you still have two prong outlets throughout your home. One of the cables is the live cable that either comes from another device that has power or directly from the panel.
Using this method any break or malfunction at one outlet will likely cause all the outlets that follow to fail as well. In this diagram two outlets are wired in the same box with a separate 120 volt source feeding each. Three wire cable runs into the box.
In this diagram two outlets are wired in the same box with a separate 120 volt source feeding each.
Wiring 2 outlets with 2 sources. Three prong outlets feature a third grounding wire which gives energy surges somewhere to go other than into your body or electrical equipment. Wiring 2 outlets with 2 sources. The hot or live black wire or red wire is connected to the brass colored screw terminal on the electrical receptacle and the neutral white wire is connected to the silver colored screw terminal on the electrical receptacle.
