Nate Nagel wrote:
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

That is the solution for a common problem with outlets that are replaced by
people who are not familiar with this method of wiring switched outlets.