How to make a socket?
In a modern apartment or house electricrosette is an indispensable element of everyday life, and everyone understands this. That's just how to make a socket, install it correctly and ground, is not known to everyone.
Before you start installing this wonderfulelectric appliance (and by no means the simplest in its construction), it is necessary to clearly determine the location of its electrical installation. Most often the place for mounting the outlets is laid in the plan of the room, and dictated by the need for the number of connection points.
The type of wiring determines the type of outlet thatcan be both external and built-in. In spite of the fact that the difference in their connection is not important, for a place of installation of the built-in socket it is nevertheless necessary to make a selection of a niche in a wall, and also to establish a plastic box - a podzrozetnik.
Tools for installing sockets
To properly make an outlet in the wall with your own hands, you will definitely need at least a minimal set of tools for electrical work. Actually it is:
- two screwdrivers in the category of slot with a tip width of 2 and 4 mm;
- two screwdrivers of the category of cross (small diameter of 2 mm, large - 3 mm);
- screwdriver-indicator "zero-phase", "chain breaking";
- mounting knife;
- a hammer;
- pliers, hammer, nose pliers.
Note: Handles of tools must be made (or covered) with insulating material, or have special insulating attachments.
Perhaps, when installing the outlet, it is not unreasonable to have special pincers designed for stripping the ends of the wire. The thing is very comfortable, and is inexpensive.
How to make a hole in the socket
In a conventional concrete wall, the installation holeThe sockets are made simply. Take a punch and hollow out the required diameter of the "nest". Now the question is especially popular: how to mount a socket in gypsum cardboard. And this, in fact, is even easier than working with an ordinary wall.
First, a hole is cut in the plasterboard, thatin itself is not very difficult. Then, if installation of rosettes of concealed wiring is performed, a "drowette for drywall" specially designed for this type of installation is used. You can attach such a box with a screwdriver in a couple of minutes, but how this will become clear to anyone who takes it in hand.
How to make a wall outlet
1. Before proceeding with the installation of the socket, it must be disassembled: displace the protective and decorative parts, remove the outer cover. This is not difficult to do, since almost all the models of the lid are fixed with one, two bolts, unscrewing which opens access to the "contents" of the outlet.
2. Find what kind of fixation wire is provided in the device. Most often, the sockets are equipped with special clamps. Therefore, to clamp the wire enough to insert it into the hole (slot) provided for it, and tighten the bolt more tightly. But, more often, the electric wire is simply screwed with a bolt with a washer.
3. In the first variant, the ends of the wire are cleaned by 5 - 7 mm, insert them and tighten them tightly. In the second variant, the ends of the electric wire are stripped to 10-15 mm (depending on the diameter). For these purposes, the best suited are round-nosed pliers. Applying them, from the peeled ends make small rings, whose inner diameter should slightly exceed the diameter of the fixing bolts. The fixing bolts and washers are inserted into the wire rings, screwed into place, clamping the wire.
4. The installation is completed by fixing the socket. This stage is especially important, because with frequent, and sometimes not correct pulling out of the plug, the outlets start to fall out of their seats.
The overhead rosettes hold fast enough. Fixed with screws. With built-in outlets, things are a little different. In theory, the spacer levers, screwed from the right and left sides, move apart and firmly cut into the mounting box fixing the device. In reality, thin levers are bent when tightened, and there can be no mention of fixation. It is for this reason that it is better to apply the "euro" boxes. In them, in addition to the struts, there is an option of installing the socket with two screws.
How to make a grounding outlet
If you picked up a power outlet and sawtwo contacts, and a third one, it means that you have an outlet with grounding. When there is no ground wire in the housing electrical wiring (marked yellow-green), then you can do "zeroing".
This is done as follows: a neutral wire is connected to the third terminal of the socket. Determine it with the help of a screwdriver-indicator, on which the light will turn on when you touch the phase.
Note: the better the wires are clamped, the better will be the contact, and as a result, the greater the load can withstand. It will last longer.
How to make a left outlet
Most often this trick is done like this: takes one wire from the left socket and stuck into the phase jack (it is determined by the indicator) of the working socket, and the second "left" electric wire is connected to the heating battery (it must be made of pure metal). After that, the counter will stand. A left-hand rosette is made, like all left wiring that is not visible to the eyes. View the scheme for the left outlet and read more information on this topic here.
