conductor identification

[don_resqcapt19]

"Well, we can't use orange; that's for high legs."

The code does not limit the use of orange to high legs.

 

[roger]

The code does not limit the use of orange to high legs.

It actually requires it for a conductor at 60 volts.

Roger

 

[LarryFine]

The code does not limit the use of orange to high legs.

I was being funny . . . or maybe not. :roll:

 

[mbeatty]

I would have no problem with it at all, I never trust the color of a conductor to identify the voltage.

I never have, either. I think it is a good practise not to.

 

[kwired]

Never trust a color

Yeah, that is yellow, green, brown 208Y/120

Why did they use white for the neutral?

I looked at about 8 services in the same Boston neighborhood and this was one of the better ones. LINK At least this one does not have parallel conductors of different sizes.

The fuse ... that circuit ran through a Fire alarm pull station in the lobby and back to this shunt trip breaker. The pull station was not connected to any fire alarm system but if you pulled it the power to the building would be cut off. Someone had disconnected it before I got there. That was also the same in each one I looked at.

I haven't played with fire alarms for a while. Does the pull stations have normally open contacts? Otherwise the shunt trip will only operate when the pull station is reset.