Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

ReallyGene t1_j1t608r wrote

Assuming your diagram is correct, your fixture is already wired incorrectly.

From the breaker panel, by convention, the black wire is Line, and the white wire is Neutral. The switch should be interrupting the Line, not the Neutral.

5

UniqUzrNme OP t1_j1t7m8b wrote

Thanks, I’ll check again, but I looked at this a long time when I made the diagram. If it’s wired wrong, might explain why I didn’t find anything online that matched it. I didn’t wire it, but, it works now to switch the fixture.

1

DragonsBane80 t1_j1taeyk wrote

Totally would work if the neutral is switched, but it's not safe. It means the fixture is always "hot". In the end, it's not likely to cause problems, but it's backwards.

Really this boils down to your switch. Does the white or black wire run to it? Unless it's a smart switch, it will only have one, not both.

As far as adding a on to that circuit, you can tap into whatever is down stream (ie a light) and run a new line (white/black/ground) from that light to your outlet.

You can do the same from the switch itself also, but that's more of a fauxpau

2

UniqUzrNme OP t1_j1v55fs wrote

Thanks - see the new pics in the link in the edited post. Definitely source -> fixture -> switch now (I didn’t wire this).

1