Moving electrical outlet off of switched circuit

Question

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I have a light switch that operates a light in my closet. Its a through-wired switch. However there is also wire(that goes to a few outlets) wrapped around the hot wire coming out of the switch to the light. The result is that when I turn the switch on and off for the closet it also turns the outlets on and off. Not good.

Im thinking that the solution would be to just take the outlet's wire off the wire thats coming out of the switch and moving it to the wire that's going INTO the switch. That way the operation of the switch does not affect the flow of power to the outlets. However, all 3 of the neutral wire's are pigtailed together. Im no expert on electrical wiring so would this solution work? Im not sure that the electricity coming from the outlet would "know" to go to back to the breaker box and would not flow to the light via the neutral wire.

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Answer 1

Turn off circuit breaker to this location.

Check to make sure power is off.  

Remove wires from from switch

Find out which wires go to outlet, and which wires go to light.

Turn circuit breaker on and see which wire is hot

Turn breaker off

Connect hot wire to one terminal of the switch, and to the wire going to the outlets.

Connect wire to the light to the other terminal on the switch

The (WHITE) neutral wires should be all connected together.

Answer 2

You are good to go on this one as you have described it. The neutrals stay connected. I wonder how this got wired up this way in the beginning. You should check both the outlets to see that they are wired correctly and check the breaker box also. Check that the black wire is hooked into the breaker. White to the neutral bar. Ground to the grounding bar.  

Answer 3

The green wire is the ground. Big short if you do this! Dont listen to the guy suggesting that. I dont see any problem hooking the hot line befor the switch. Leave the nuetrals where they are.

Answer 4

You are thinking correctly.  Just move the one black wire that is coming out of the switch to the connection going into the switch and you should be fine.

Answer 5

If you pull the duplex receptaple out of the box you should find that the jumper tab between both brass screws has been removed.  The simplest way is to remove the wire that runs from the switch and tape it at both ends then with a 4" piece of wire strip both ends and put one end on each of the brass terminals on the duplex.  

Answer 6

Try moving the green wire to the main power source. That should do it! The blue and the red stay the same.