Exevez
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- Location
- Mesa, Arizona
- Occupation
- Commercial Electrician
Is there any code that says I have to identify the switch leg when it is the same color wire as the constant hot?
So I'm on a big job right now and I was put on lead for wire pulling for a few buildings. Every classroom has the same layout for the lights. Two switch legs and an emergency light by the front door. Since theirs only one em light per room I pushed the constant hot through all the other boxes (2 or 3 boxes) without any loop. The switching for the rooms lights is the same everywhere aswell. The a switch leg is in the row behind the em light and the b switch leg goes to every other light in the room. So I'll admit what I did, I did out of laziness. When pushing the wire. I didn't go to every box. In fact I put my ladder at the box for the emergency light and maybe 2 more boxes per room. I also didn't tape my switch legs. I did tape it in the em box which is the only box that has more than three wires hanging out of it. Every box aside from the home run and the em just has the switch, neutral, and ground. So the guy putting in the lights is the kind of guy who likes to put other people's work down in order to make his work look better and he went crying to foreman about me not taping my switch leg. This ended in a shouting match and my foreman telling me to check the code for identifying wires. I see alot of stuff about identifying when you're using a different color wire but what about in my situation? Inevitably I told my field super why the guy was nitpicking my work. Told him, if he was so upset about the switch leg not having tape he could have put tape on it as he put in the lights and not said anything, just done his job. But he wanted to make a big deal put of it and give himself a reason to take three weeks doing nothing. Sorry I rambled. Got excited for a second lol.
So I'm on a big job right now and I was put on lead for wire pulling for a few buildings. Every classroom has the same layout for the lights. Two switch legs and an emergency light by the front door. Since theirs only one em light per room I pushed the constant hot through all the other boxes (2 or 3 boxes) without any loop. The switching for the rooms lights is the same everywhere aswell. The a switch leg is in the row behind the em light and the b switch leg goes to every other light in the room. So I'll admit what I did, I did out of laziness. When pushing the wire. I didn't go to every box. In fact I put my ladder at the box for the emergency light and maybe 2 more boxes per room. I also didn't tape my switch legs. I did tape it in the em box which is the only box that has more than three wires hanging out of it. Every box aside from the home run and the em just has the switch, neutral, and ground. So the guy putting in the lights is the kind of guy who likes to put other people's work down in order to make his work look better and he went crying to foreman about me not taping my switch leg. This ended in a shouting match and my foreman telling me to check the code for identifying wires. I see alot of stuff about identifying when you're using a different color wire but what about in my situation? Inevitably I told my field super why the guy was nitpicking my work. Told him, if he was so upset about the switch leg not having tape he could have put tape on it as he put in the lights and not said anything, just done his job. But he wanted to make a big deal put of it and give himself a reason to take three weeks doing nothing. Sorry I rambled. Got excited for a second lol.