Can you identify this cable

[11Haze29]

On a residential home, I came across a cable sticking through the brickface (just dangling). Its wired to a 2 pole 40A inside (off position). The odd thing is the cable itself. Its 3 conduction #6 with a #6 bare ground, and two of the insulated conductors are white in color and the other insulated conductor is black. I've never seen a cable with two whites and one black. Insulation looks like THN and the outer sheath looks like the PVC that covers Romex.

Any ideas of what this cable may have been used for.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

My guess it is a piece of 6/3 nm with ground and the red wire lost its color from the weather.?????

 

[mcclary's electrical]

My guess it is a piece of 6/3 nm with ground and the red wire lost its color from the weather.?????

Good guess, but he siad #6 ground. I haven't a clue what that is

 

[Chamuit]

Could it be 6-3 without ground? Still find that in older residential work.

 

[mcclary's electrical]

Could it be 6-3 without ground? Still find that in older residential work.

I thought he said one was bare+hot+white+white


super neutral cable?

 

[LarryFine]

I thought he said one was bare+hot+white+white . . .

He did.

My guess it is a piece of 6/3 nm with ground and the red wire lost its color from the weather.?????

I agree.

A quick strip of the sheath might tell us, and maybe a nick of the insulations.

(Can "insulation" be pluralized? )

 

[kwired]

Could it be a cable intended for use in some other country? Not that I know much about practices in other places but it is something to consider.

 

[jmellc]

My guess it is a piece of 6/3 nm with ground and the red wire lost its color from the weather.?????

I agree with this thought. Most likely the case. Do you have a chance to skin it back an inch? Might tell the whole story.

 

[Chamuit]

I thought he said one was bare+hot+white+white


super neutral cable?

Missed the bare mentioned on the OP.

 

[TOOL_5150]

My guess it is a piece of 6/3 nm with ground and the red wire lost its color from the weather.?????

I often see this at the weatherhead, when colored conductors are used. Seems black has the best stability, white and red coated conductors' insulation are often way worse as far as cracking then the black.

On that same thought, I wonder if the newer colored thhn, sizes greater than #6 are rated for direct sunlight, like the black thhn is.

~Matt