On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:52:00 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 8:37:24 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 02:28:22 -0800 (PST), Uncle Monster
wrote:

All of the switched outlets I ever wired had the feed at the outlet not the switch. The power to the outlet was daisy chained to the other outlets in the room and a piece of Romex was run to the switch to control the power to one or both sides of the duplex receptacle. Having the feed at the receptacle means you only have to break the hot tab to separate the sides and switch one of them. ?(?)?


The code now requires a neutral at every switch location so you may
see things wired differently. It is because there are so many "smart"
switches coming down the pipe that need a neutral.

Easy, run 14/3 w/ground to every single pole switch or 14/4 w/ground to all 3-way switches. Most of the wiring I did was commercial and industrial so I ran a lot of conduit. I left a pull string in all my conduit runs then this evil stuff called MC cable came along and made commercial wiring TOO easy. Man I ran a lot of that stuff before I wound up gimpy. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle MC Monster Cain't touch dis!

Conduit is one exception to that rule, for the reason you mentioned.
Adding a wire is easy.