What does the load wire connect to?

The load wire connects your light switch to your light fixture. When the switch is “closed”, electricity flows from the light switch to your light fixture, turning on the light.

What color wire is load?

black
So, what color is the load wire? Load wires are mostly black, but red can also be used as a secondary load wire.

Does the hot wire go to line or load?

The circuit’s hot wire (typically colored black or red) connects to the black or brass-colored screw terminal marked LINE. The white neutral wire connects to the silver-colored screw terminal marked LINE. The markings for line and load usually are printed on the back of the outlet’s plastic body.

How to identify line wire and load wire?

It is easy when it is a simple switch, but a 3-way, 4-way or n-way switch circuit is trickier. When doing so, I need to know where the hot “line” wire is and where the most downstream “load” wire is. I am able to accomplish this but it is time consuming.

What does it mean when one wire goes into load?

Line is the side of the device where the wires from the panel (or other equipment feeding the device) are connected. Load is where any devices that are to be protected by the GFCI device are connected.

What should my hot read be for a load neutral wire?

If you get any reading at all, you’ll know that your hot is correct. It should read around 120 for your line neutral and around 20 for your load neutral. Separate them and wire accordingly.

Is the line and load wire in the same junction box?

A line and a load wire may be in the same junction box depending on where the line (source) conductor comes in and where it is going next, but the schematic for making a multiple 3-way and 4-ways work is always the same. Line coming in on one 3-way and load going out on the other.

Why are there multiple wire in a lug?

Suppose you have a circuit that is protected by a master 400A breaker, and then fed to two 200A MCB panels downstream. If you do not have 400A of wiring to each of the panels, then that division of the circuit is not a feeder, but a tap. It is a portion of a circuit that isn’t sufficiently sized for the upstream means of protection.

Can You terminate two conductors in a lug?

Click to expand… Yes, the 2/ indicates that you can terminate two conductors, 250 – 1/0 or a single conductor as large as 600 all the way down to a #4 so, your assumptions are correct. Is someone challenging you on this or are you using this for a specific application?

Where do the White and black wires go?

One of the black wires receives power from the service panel; the other sends it on to other loads on the circuit. The white wires allow current passing through the outlet and the other loads on the circuit to return to the panel.

What does line and load mean in electrical?

Line and load refer to the power connections coming into or out of electrical devices in the scheme of your electrical system. It’s all relative because, in many cases, the load wire of one device is the line wire of the next device in the circuit.