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Can you take power from a receptacle and run it to a switch to control 3 lights?
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∙ 13y ago
This is done all the time as an add-on to an existing system. An electrician wouldn't do this in an original installation. The considerations you have are not over loading the existing circuit; and the cosmetics involved if your wires are all concealed inside walls.
You basically connect black, white and bare wires from the outlet to the switch. You switch the hot (black) wire and run black from switch to lights in parallel and connect the white and ground in the switch box.
If you would be adding 3 60 watt lights that would add about 1.5 amps to the existing circuit.
As with any electrical installation you need to know what you are doing, power needs to be off and you have to follow best practices an electrician would use to run wires and make connections.
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