Lamp Bulb Socket Wiring

This is a wiring diagram for a standard 3 way lamp switch.

Lamp bulb socket wiring. 14 screw in a light bulb. Remember when repairing lamps the neutral wire in the lamp cord is marked usually with a rib or ribs and it connects to the wide blade of the plug at one end and to the neutral screw usually silver but may have some other identification at the other end. A hot wire that brings the electricity to the socket and a neutral wire that bring the electricity back to the household circuit. Lamp sockets lamp cord lamp switches and related electrical lamp parts if you are in need of quality lamp parts when restoring vintage and antique pieces updating lamp sockets cords switches and other components will help ensure that your project is suitable for use.

For lamp sockets with grounding clips insert the end of the bare copper wire or the green insulated grounding wire into the grounding clip. These sockets have two terminals one for the hot wire and one for the. The socket is used with a three way bulb containing 2 separate elements that are energized separately and then together as the switch knob is turned for varying degrees of light. As the dictionary states sockets are the devices that deliver electricity to the bulbs.

If the threaded socket is hot every metallic part of the lamp becomes hot. Power reaches the bulb by running through the metal tab at the bottom of the socket via the hot wire where the bulb sits through the bulb and back out the metal threads where the bulb is screwed in via the neutral wire creating a circuit. Wiring a 3 way lamp socket switch. Untie the knots in the lamp socket wires.

Lamp wire is tied in an underwriter s knot which holds the wire in place in the lamp and prevents it from being pulled out. Standard lamp cords have only two wires.