On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 1:52:08 PM UTC-5, 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. ヽ(ヅ)ノ


Why would you need to run 14/3 to every switch, when 14/2 already provides
both a hot and neutral to switches that are connected in the most common
way, ie from the source to the switch, then to the receptacle from there?
Every single pole switch in every house I've lived in has been wired that
way. The problems start where you don't have a neutral at the switch when
it's done backwards, ie source to receptacle, then to switch or a 3-way
switch that isn't connected to the source.