Questions and Answers for Leviton Decora 15 Amp Tamper Resistant Duplex Outlet, Black

A:  Yes.

A:  Yes and they do not look bad. Very hard to see the logo, someone would have to really want to do research on your home to look that close to an outlet. They look and work great throughout my home 

A:  Yes, on the metal on the backside. 

A:  Yes it is small. But still have it.

A:  yes, it does!!!!!!!!!!!!

A:  Well I never noticed but I just checked and yes in fact they do. Thanks this will bother me now lol.

A:  I dont know why they do anything, but the two pole allows for wiring one on a switch, ie for a lamp,, while the other can be full power.

A:  The duplex outlet can be separated at the terminals

A:  A single pole outlet would give you an open circuit and nothing would work. Every electrical component has a minimum of two poles. Your question is nonsense.

A:  Yes it worked and matched the colors

A:  Yes, they are commercial rated.

A:  not sure what you mean but there are 2 terminals each side. so if you only have 2 whites and blacks, separate them and put one on each terminal

A:  White is connected to black? This would blow the breaker. This outlet is installed like any other outlet, but you may need a real electrician to figure out what is going on.

A:  I do NOT agree with what the last "electrician " did. I dare not suggest anything, except . . . . Please get a qualified ELECTRICIAN to take a look at that 'mess' before doing anything with it.

A:  LEAVE THE PIGTAIL ALONE ,, YOU SHOULD HAVE ONE WHITE WIRE AND ONE BLACK WIRE . PUT THE WHITE WIRE ON THE SILVER SCREW AND THE BLACK WIRE ON THE BRASS SCREW .

A:  So the neutral wire(white) is pigtailed together with the hot wire(black,red,blue)?

A:  YES .

A:  Yes

A:  Absolutely, this works like any other outlet. In fact, I have some installed in our kitchen and basement on dual function breakers

A:  yes you can

A:  Yes, this outlet can be powered by a GFCI breaker. It does not replace a GFCI breaker.

A:  check the circuit , circuit breaker and be sure the circuit line doesn't have a gfci tripped. check that the circuit breaker isn't a split breaker and one side is tripped. the gfci could be somewhere in the house like a bathroom , garage or kitchen. if the outlet is wired in a specific way yes half can be good while the other is shorted. It's possible that it could be wired to a switched circuit and you have a wall switch turned off that is controlling this . This plug is usually mounted upside down.

A:  These outlets have a tab on the hot side that can be removed so that you can connect 2 hot wires...one to the bottom receptacle and one to the top. This is common when desiring to have a switch to half the outlet. You'll want to confirm the tabs are intact on the outlets that are acting up on you. Other than that, I've installed a ton of these and have never had an issue.

A:  Normally no, check to make sure the tab on the sides are intact. The (the screw terminals are joined by a tab if you break the tab then only the one where the wires are physically connected will work) hope this helps.

A:  In short, no, there is no way that switches out of the box would have the top dead and the bottom live. But there is a “hot bridge” on an outlet that is cut in order to wire “half switched outlet”. Do an internet search on those topics, there are videos that explain the details. Someone might have cut the bridges on the hot and wired only to the bottom. Cheers, JimATX

A:  If it's more than one receptacle, you might want to look at the wiring. I've seen wiring where the top of all receptacles in a bedroom(s) are connected. Check whether you are wired in on the same circuit.

A:  Unusual, but not impossible The upper receptacle and the lower receptacle are constructed in "parallel". Looking on BOTH side you should have a thin copper strap from the top to the bottom receptacle on BOTH sides of the duplex. (HOT and neutral). It sounds like you have one or those copper straps broken or 'open'. Replace (or have a qualified electrician replace) the faulty duplexes. Right off-hand I would say it is unlikely to draw too much current on one half of a duplex so as to melt (and open) the thin strap between the two halves without tripping a breaker in the Main Distribution Panel. The breaker in the MDP for a groups of duplex outlets should ONLY be a 15 Amps (NEVER LARGER).

A:  Hi Sf if you think you will bend the plug, then use a heaver plug for a couple time to break it in. Then go back to the one you want. Sound like it is just stiff from being new. If you still can use it call Leviton 1-800-824-3005. But I just slam it in when I test all the building with a tester, so have had some that are more stiff than other but just dont be afraid just stick it in, or you could use a recpt tester to make sure is wired correctly and it will break it in along the way, I use the Klein Model RT105, but for a less costly one use Model # RT110 is only like $6. And you can ckeck all recepts to insure all are wired right

A:  They do not. This item is just the outlets. You can purchase 10 packs of plain plates separately.

A:  No, you'll need to buy those separately. They come in white, beige, and black.

A:  The white screw come with the plate , the silver one you see on the picture is going to be covering with the plate

A:  Cover plates are available in several colors, sizes and quantity packs that are sold separately..

A:  No, you have to buy the cover plates separately.

A:  Just correcting information provided by sparky1: Backwiring and backstabbing are not the same thing. Backwire is legal and ideal.

A:  This is a practice known as "Back-Stabbing" it is no longer a legal way to wire in outlets per code because it is unstable and known to cause arcing and electrical fire. This is why Levition does not make back stabbed outlet anymore

A:  Hi kd, not that I know of you can go to Home Depot and look at recepts as see, but after 40+ years of installing 1000's+ receptacles, I prefer to curl my wires an is a better connection and if install correctly a connection and faster installation that is very tight and does not loosen easily on the years