Are these outlets plugged in right ???

I got the 12awg wire running into the timer then into outlet boxes , for some reason only a 600watt lights up , the 1000watters wont.
here are some pictures of the wiring job on the outlets .

No! Turn it off at the breaker!

Now that ur safe, let's go through this... You should have a 40 amp breaker in your main panel per timer box. There are 4 wires from your panel to your timer box. Ground goes to the green screw. Neutral goes to the left most screw. Call it screw #1. The other two wires are BOTH HOT and come from your 40 amp breaker. They go to screw #2 and screw #4. Now your timer is powered correctly. I will try to take a picture and of mine and post it for you. I just created my account on here today.
Now for the plugs. I don't know why your running 4 wires to them, but we will get to that. Are your lights running 240v or 110v? I suggest getting 2
40v because it takes half the amps. It's like running water through a bigger hose...

All this assuming your timer screws go, #1 neutral, #2 hot in #3 hot out #4 hot in and #5 hot out.

Just curious, not knowing anything about the intricacies of hooking up electricity, what'd he do wrong?

My red and black are the hot "in". Green and blue are my hot "out" the white and green tied with the bare ground wires are grounds as well. These are NOT The correct colors for code applications. I'm remodeling in a month and I'm doing everything to code.

Right? I should have started with that. It looks good accept the neutrals. There shouldn't be the white wires going to the plugs... It looks like he's trying to run 240v. Either way, 240 requires 2 hot and a ground. And 110 has 1 hot, a neutral and a ground. I mixed my neutral and ground once, and fried everything on the circuit. Electricity doesn't do what you think is "logical". I learned that hard.

So no matter what, there should only be three wires going to the plugs. Hot, hot and ground for 240, or hot, ground, and neutral for 110. If its 110v then wire the neutrals together on screw one. Also make sure the ballasts are set appropriately for 110, or 240.

Here's a single 240v plug wired up correctly. If I were to add another one you would use wire nuts to tie 3 sets of wire together. Attaching wires from Tue second plug to the wires going to the first plug, and tie your main wire to both. All tied into the wire nuts together.

thx for all the info I wished I would of got last night loll. I actually got it all plugged right this morning , Neutral is basically useless once its plugged in the timer . Now I plugged only the red hot and black hot with the ground to my outlets , looks like this .

Are those 240 plugs? What's the white wire connecting the two outlets? If its a hot jumper, then your relying on that plug to take the heat to power the other. I think... I'm not an electrician, but i always see pig tails with wire nuts to feed other outlets on a single line... As long as ur safe, stuff is dangerous. I had a panel fail, luckily I was in there when it happened, or there would have been a fire.

cylanoid said:

Are those 240 plugs? What's the white wire connecting the two outlets? If its a hot jumper, then your relying on that plug to take the heat to power the other. I think... I'm not an electrician, but i always see pig tails with wire nuts to feed other outlets on a single line... As long as ur safe, stuff is dangerous. I had a panel fail, luckily I was in there when it happened, or there would have been a fire.

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white wire is called neutral , its not a hot wire more like a kind of ground and yes stuff is dangerous.