On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:37:58 -0500, "Mark" wrote:


"tim birr" wrote in message
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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....


Did you even THINK to draw a diagram of how the OLD outlet was wired? Seems
obvious that you haven't a clue how it was wired. Was the white on the side
of the outlet with the silver screws and the black and red on the side with
the brass screws. each on it's own screw?

The new outlet has a piece of metal that ties the two sockets
together. If you have separate wires (black and red) going to each
individual outlet, you need to break that tab off on the black/red
side of the outlet.