How do I install this device? I connected a white
How do I install this device? I connected a white at top left hand screw of device and a black wire at bottom left hand screw of the device. I also did the same with the remaining white wire and black wire to the right side of the device. I then went and turned the circuit braker on. The electrical outlet works, but the light won't turn on. I then detached the black white wire from the right hand side of the device and still nothing.
What am I doing wrong?
Cindy Smith
What am I doing wrong?
Cindy Smith
Electrical Supplies - Leviton - Combo Switch Receptacle - 5225-T - Light Almond
Answers & Comments
You have almost got it, but the wires aren't separate the correct way. On one side of the device your going to have your power. The side that's power will have two brass colored screws. You need to find your power wire and splice two wires to it then connect those two wires to your device on the power side this should leave you with two wires. If you happen to have two white wires now, you are going to splice them together with a third wire (called a pigtail just as you did with the blacks on the power side). Now on the non-power side the screw colors should be brass and silver. You will attach your white wire or bundle of white wires using the pigtail to the silver screw. This is the neutral for your receptacle. Then the black that goes out to your light will get attached to the brass screw. The problem you had was then a neutral was being attached to the switch as well as the receptacle and a switch requires no neutral, a switch is simply a break in the power line.