tim birr wrote:
So, I decided to spend Christmas Eve replacing a wall outlet that no
longer held electrical plugs very well.

Swapped out the single white wire, the single red wire, the single
black wire and connected the green ground wire.

Now, said outlet works fine....but...

Originally, I had a wall switch across the room that turned off the
power to the outlet I just replaced, as well as to a second outlet in
the same room.

Now, the wall switch no longer controls the power to the outlets.

The wall toggle switch can be on or off, doesn't matter, power still
flows to both outlets.

What did I screw up. In other words, how can I get it back to where
when I put the toggle switch to off, both table lamps turn off....


Typically you only need black, white, and ground for a receptacle. The
presence of a red wire leads me to believe that only half the recep was
controlled by the switch and that the other half was always hot. Do you
still have the recep that you removed? Fish it out of the trash, I bet
you will find that between the two screws on the neutral side there is a
tab bridging the two connections, but on the hot side that tab will have
been broke noff. So if that is the case pull the new recep out and
break that tab off (do I need to say turn off the power?) and whichever
side of the recep is connected to the switch, probably the red wire not
the black, will now be controlled by the switch again.

good luck

nate

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