AC cable

[infinity]

I don't exactly disagree, but that argument applies to everything. Someone may book a green wire to hot and someone could die. I don't think we should put too much stock into what some unqualified hack might do.

Even a great electrician can mistakenly connect a red conductor in a cable to a hot leg. A green conductor, not likely unless someone is color blind. IMO since the right cable is manufactured and available the NEC should prohibit using a re-identifed red conductor as an IG.

 

[hbiss]

I once found where an EC used the green conductor of 12/2 MC as one of the travelers in a 3-way. Didn't even bother to re-identify.

-Hal

 

[LarryFine]

It is but if your labor rate is high there is no savings using green tape. Not to mention if someone mistakenly hooks the red conductor up to a hot leg someone may die.

Whenever I have done that, I stripped every inch of visible red insulation to use as the regular EGC, and I used the green as the IG conductor.

 

[CoolWill]

Whenever I have done that, I stripped every inch of visible red insulation to use as the regular EGC, and I used the green as the IG conductor.

We were talking about AC without an insulated green conductor, not MC.

 

[LarryFine]