Household electrical outlet question

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  1. cyberpriusII

    cyberpriusII Prodigyplace says I'm Super Kris

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    Have I said how much I appreciate all your help!!! Thank you all so much! I will grab hold of this next week and will keep you all updated.
     
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    The black wire is the hot "feed". It might have a wire nut bundle in the box too.
    The red wire is the "switched hot" that goes to all of the connected outlets in a daisy chain fashion.

    The white common wire is just bridged through at or near the box with no actual connection there.
     
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    Problem solved, had the lamp electric plugs in the wrong outlets.....stupid, stupid, stupid.....
     
    #23 cyberpriusII, Jul 13, 2019
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    You aren't the first or last to do this. I put a computer running a media center on a switched outlet by mistake. Spent a bit of time figuring out why that didn't work. Mark the outlets as "switched" with a label maker or colored sticker.

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