How to install a power outlet. Detailed photo instructions for installing outlets

class) today I installed the outlet myself, thanks to you :)) I'm now an electrician of the first level :)) thanks!

On the socket shown in the photo, in addition to the legs, there are 4 more curly cuts for additional fixing with screws. In order to use them, it is necessary that there are corresponding screw holes on the socket. usually 0, 2 or 4. The more the better. In addition, you can find outlets with additional holes in the frame at the corners, for which you can additionally press against the dowels. A great option if the undergrowth without ext. holes for curly cuts, but to drill under the dowels, of course, you must be extremely careful not to get into the wire ...

The impression was that the article was written by an apprentice electrician :). If you are already writing for dummies, then please, write down, at least slightly, the marking of the wires, and, in the meanwhile, indicate where to connect the ground wire;). It is desirable with a fot close-up. So that people do not fantasize.

uletniy - on every forum there should be such a ram with a self-poverty, writhing from itself the all-knowing god.

uletniy is right!

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"Modern wiring has three wires and is called a three-wire, one of the three wires is grounding, the other is the phase and the third is the neutral wire. The indoor unit of the outlet is equipped with three terminals to which these three wires are connected." Explanation required:

Yellow-green is always protective ground, blue / cyan is working zero, the remaining is phase. I know an example of electric shock from a refrigerator connected to a socket made by an electrician of the first level. The brown wire was connected to the grounding contact, the refrigerator worked fine. Although I know cases when Tajiks electricians-tilers-plasterers-painters used yellow-green as a phase. Use devices and visual control of connections.

It happens that the paws are not pulled out - in these cases, you can use pieces of linoleum.

I'll tell you how to safely make a euro from a Soviet outlet. I am writing based on a similar publication that I saw on one site. From the read, the hair stood on end, if you follow all the instructions of that author, an electric shock is provided. Each person was faced with a situation where, for example, you bring home a brand new foreign TV, and its plug does not fit the outlet. You need a euro socket, and in front of you is a good old Soviet one. What to do? It would be nice to replace it with the euro, in any store of electrical goods a wide range and favorable prices. Only this is in the store, you still have to go there, but you need a socket now ... You can use a special adapter that is worn on the plug of an electrical appliance and inserted into our Soviet socket. The good thing is that the adapter is not tied to the place and can be used on outlets throughout the house, but what if you have several electrical appliances for the euro and only one adapter? Again, you need to go to the store. We need a simple and quick solution, and it is ... In order to connect your brand new TV to the network, just remove the cover from the outlet. After this tricky manipulation of the euro, the plug can already be connected.The disadvantage of this solution is that live parts remain open and there is a high risk of accidental contact with them or a short circuit, which can lead to electrical injury and damage to household appliances. It will be best to remove the cover from our Soviet outlet and use a drill to make the holes wider, and then assemble everything back. Well, there when there will be inspiration, you can already replace the socket with a euro. Always remember the main thing about observing safety measures! Disconnect the plugs, check the absence of voltage. If you do not understand electricity, then it is better not to meddle and entrust this matter to specialists!

Igor! "It would be best to remove the cover from our Soviet outlet and make the holes wider with a drill." About 18 years ago, the same need arose. The diameter of the plug of the Soviet plug is 4mm, and for the euro - 5mm. My double socket to prevent pulling out of the concrete wall was walled up with alabaster. He removed the socket cover and inserted the euro plug several times into the socket contacts, so that the plug more or less worked well and there was not much effort when pulling it out. The material of the lid of a white outlet, somewhat similar in properties to carbolite, does not burn, but crumbles. He expanded the holes with a 5.2 mm diameter drill with a hand drill at low speeds gradually on both sides so that chips would not form at the output of the drill. For all this time, the socket served for the euro plug of the power cord of the vacuum cleaner and iron with euro plugs each; and nothing blurred and didn’t burst from the wall. Now in the outlet stores in Aalom, I don’t like the Euro sockets for hidden wiring and protruding from the wall, I prefer two-pin universal sockets. In non-new homes, grounding is absent as such, so that an electric kettle or vacuum cleaner can work normally without a third grounding wire. Grounding (like a bus) is actually done in a private house or on the 1st floor of a multi-storey building.

So easily, no sockets or switches were set. Most often there is hemorrhage. In old (and new too) curved walls, corners, seats, glasses with broken or uneven corners. As a result, the paws are not fixed securely or because of the uneven surface of the wall, the outlet rises crookedly not flush with the wall. And here it’s not the electrician’s job but the plasterers.