Romex wire color

[Ebow]

Color coding makes it so much easier when you are working with T. Dee and T. Dum. I can make it short and sweet. "Take that roll of flat yeller wire and run it from here back to the panel." Or - "Take that round white wire and run it between these two switch boxes, over the rafters this time!"
You guys may not know what it is like to have to work with very non-electrical orientated people. You ask for a roll of 10/2 and they bring you the 14/2 (it's smaller than the 12 so it must be 10!). I had a partner that ran two bedroon circuits with UF before I caught him. Yes, the jacket was white.
Color coding is great!

Gene
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Remember - Speed Kills and it may not always be you.

 

[480sparky]

... Color coding is great!

Until your help turns out to be color blind.

 

[mdshunk]

I had a partner that ran two bedroon circuits with UF before I caught him. Yes, the jacket was white.

I caught myself doing that not too long ago. I carried in a box of longer end-roll scraps on a new wiring job, as I normally do, to try to use them up. I roped up a few boxes with a UF scrap before I realized what I did. I left it in place anyhow, since I wasn't likely to have a better use for those short UF pieces. Not something I'd have used inside normally, but since I ran it accidentally, I couldn't justify pulling it back out.

 

[peter d]

Marc, is there anything in electrical work that you haven't done yet?

 

[acrwc10]

I caught myself doing that not too long ago. I carried in a box of longer end-roll scraps on a new wiring job, as I normally do, to try to use them up. I roped up a few boxes with a UF scrap before I realized what I did. I left it in place anyhow, since I wasn't likely to have a better use for those short UF pieces. Not something I'd have used inside normally, but since I ran it accidentally, I couldn't justify pulling it back out.

You story reminded me of a job I can into that some one else had begun, the guy used 10/2 UF on a receptacle circuit. What a PITA to trim out.

 

[cowboyjwc]

Color coding makes it so much easier when you are working with T. Dee and T. Dum. I can make it short and sweet. "Take that roll of flat yeller wire and run it from here back to the panel." Or - "Take that round white wire and run it between these two switch boxes, over the rafters this time!"
You guys may not know what it is like to have to work with very non-electrical orientated people. You ask for a roll of 10/2 and they bring you the 14/2 (it's smaller than the 12 so it must be 10!). I had a partner that ran two bedroon circuits with UF before I caught him. Yes, the jacket was white.
Color coding is great!

Gene
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Remember - Speed Kills and it may not always be you.

Better than doing it by feel. :grin:

 

[norcal]

If the crews who wire trailers were to be laying sod, the crew leader would be yelling "green side up,green side up" .That is the reason IMO why NM cable is color coded.

 

[tkb]

Conversation with apprentice:

Go..to..the..truck..you got that part?..and..get..the..flat..yellow..cable..are you color blind?

 

[LarryFine]

If the crews who wire trailers were to be laying sod, the crew leader would be yelling "green side up,green side up" .

Two (blondes, idiots, whatever) went to put siding on a house.

First one says: "Hey, this box of nails is defective!"

Seond one says: "Why? What's wrong with them?"

First: "Half of the nails have the heads on the wrong end!"

Second: "You jerk! Those nails are for the other side of the house!"

 

[LarryFine]

I still wish they'd make the difference between #6NM and #8NM more obvious.

 

[tango2echo]

I have purchased and used orange, brown, and yellow 10/2 nm recently. Also had a roll of "round" #4seu AL that one of my guys was about to pull for #6ser AL. I don't care what it looks like, you still have to double check.

 

[480sparky]

.... I don't care what it looks like, you still have to double check.

Amen to that. I well remember trimming a house years ago that someone else roughed in. Seems they used #6 THHN for the cable TV......

 

[peter d]

Seems they used #6 THHN for the cable TV......

Say what???

 

[480sparky]

Say what???

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Got sent to trim a house. Did all the 120 & 240 stuff first, saved the cable & phone for last.

Took my RG-6 strippers to the first lo-volt box, and it didn't feel right. So I looked close, and it was #6 THHN.

 

[ItsHot]

BIG TV's

BIG TV's

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Got sent to trim a house. Did all the 120 & 240 stuff first, saved the cable & phone for last.

Took my RG-6 strippers to the first lo-volt box, and it didn't feel right. So I looked close, and it was #6 THHN.

That's for those Big TV's, # 6 is good for 50" or bigger screens!:grin:

 

[resistance]

They couldn't come up with another color for #6?

Don't give them any ideas, they may up the cost for color!:grin:

 

[peter d]

Took my RG-6 strippers to the first lo-volt box, and it didn't feel right. So I looked close, and it was #6 THHN.

So did you hook it up?

 

[480sparky]

So did you hook it up?

Uh, no. I just went home for the day. Kinda hard to put F connectors on it.

 

[360Youth]

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Got sent to trim a house. Did all the 120 & 240 stuff first, saved the cable & phone for last.

Took my RG-6 strippers to the first lo-volt box, and it didn't feel right. So I looked close, and it was #6 THHN.

I hope it was a single story with plenty of attic or crawl space.

Or you get get a part time job working for the cable co. and just drill it through walls and floor boards. (Sorry, pet peve :smile: )

 

[480sparky]

I hope it was a single story with plenty of attic or crawl space.

Or you get get a part time job working for the cable co. and just drill it through walls and floor boards. (Sorry, pet peve :smile: )

Nope...4-level split.