OK, so if you are using NM cable how do you wire , say, a water heater?Around here tape is not accepted for re identifying conductors. In Virginia it was, and when I moved here I failed an inspection over using tape to re identify a conductor. It happened to be taping a white one black.
Are you looking to have black, white, and white?Example, taping the red wire in a 12-4 MC cable white. Is it code Compliant? Thank you for your help.
I'm thinking you meant black, red, white, white? I think that's what the OP was saying. Tape the blue with white and have a 12-2-2.Too bad we don't have Canadian NM, or what I like to call DC Romex, with black, red, and bare conductors.
Are you looking to have black, white, and white?
He did say 12-4, didn't he? My bad.I'm thinking you meant black, red, white, white? I think that's what the OP was saying. Tape the blue with white and have a 12-2-2.
We are required to use a permanent marker to paint the white wire a color acceptable to be an ungrounded conductor.OK, so if you are using NM cable how do you wire , say, a water heater?
That restrictive condition was removed from the exception in the 2020 code.See 200.6(E). Seems to require that "the conditions of maintenance and supervision ensure that only qualified persons service the installation" per exception 1.
Cheers, Wayne
We're still at the awkward point between editions where we need to sometimes be specific as to the edition we are referencing. I should have been more specific in my earlier post.That restrictive condition was removed from the exception in the 2020 code.
Got ya. I misunderstood you to mean you can't reidentify at all.We are required to use a permanent marker to paint the white wire a color acceptable to be an ungrounded conductor.
Yes, crazy. Solid black tape seems fine with me. But nobody cares what I think. lol