What are the instructions on how run a switch leg to a receptacle?

Answer 1

Assuming you are hot at the receptacle:

Turn power off. Cut the Black wire feeding the receptacle. Connect one wire of your switch wire (same guage as feed wire) to one end of the cut, second wire to other end. Use wire nuts of proper size. You will have one connection black/black and one white/black. This is the only type run where a white/black should ever be made. Connect green ground to other greens at receptacle. At switch, wire black and white across poles of switch - top and bottom. Connect green to ground lug on switch.

If you are hot at switch:

Turn of power. Wire hot black to one pole of switch. Connect white wire of feed to white wire for recepacle. Wire black receptacle wire to other pole of switch. Wire green to green, with short jumper to switch lug. Wire receptacle normally.

ADD: It all depends on what's already there and how the wiring runs. If the receptacle is already in place and you're adding a switch to control it, the power source has to be at the receptacle. You break the black wire there and run that through the switch. The switch then 'makes and breaks' the hot wire. One wire to the switch will actually be white, but it's acting the role of a black wire.

Now, if your power is coming from the switch, you wire the hot (black) wire to one pole and the black wire to the receptacle to the other pole, with the white wire straight through. Again, the switch 'makes and breaks' the hot wire.

Answer 2

i'm not sure what "doll..." is saying. a hot wire to the switch. off the other terminal of the switch a hot wire to the recept. leave the white and green wires on the recept. keep in mind the only thing a switch does is seperate the hot leg of a circuit.