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Hi all,
I have joined to mention a problem I have encountered. We have installed several coils of 12/3 HCFC manufactured by AFC on a current project. We almost missed the fact that insulation on the red conductor is damaged in some places. There is a cut lengthwise that varies from simply scoring the nylon jacket to fully slicing the insulation.
I spoke with AFC's quality control department Wednesday, and they were not aware of the problem.
I brought a sample back to my distributor, and we walked to the (nearly empty!) pallet and found the same problem on another roll.
Today the wholesaler told me that they found the problem on the red of a 10/3 roll too. I do not know yet how far reaching this will be, what plant the cable is from, or if a coil that looks ok on the ends really is allright throughout the entire length. Please look closely at any (12+10/4 also?) that you are to use before installing, or even that which has been put in recently.
I hope this is a small batch. . .
 
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Brian, I left the other two up to count towards his Moderated posts.

Roger
 
I think I forgot to tell you all, but I had the same problem with some 14-4 a while back. The neutral had the same problem.

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I worked a job last year where we pulled rg59 coax in a commercial building (25 ' ceilings). Hooked up the system and realized we had several bad runs of cable (shield shorted to center conductor). It was probably 14,000' of cable and we ended up sending back the rest of the shipment about 10 1000' reels. My boss was xxxxxx:mad:
 
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ItsHot said:
Hey! Its 3 phase Romex!! Awesome!
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Huh?

I have been known to use 12/3 as '3 phase romex' and certainly have used 12/4 NM many times.

Might even have to remark the condutors brown, orange, yellow.
 
Oh boy

Oh boy

iwire said:
Huh?

I have been known to use 12/3 as '3 phase romex' and certainly have used 12/4 NM many times.

Might even have to remark the condutors brown, orange, yellow.
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Oh boy! Your right, wire is wire! I knew a guy that worked with someone, that everytime he said "boy" in reference to phasing, he would get highly offended! Some people just don't liked to be called boy.
 
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