Color Phasing Through Contactor

[TimPO]

I have a lighting contactor being fed from a panelboard. The circuits feeding it are going to be varying 208 circuits of black, red & blue. They will be feeding through a terminal block in the contactor and then going out to their associated lights. Do I need to match the phasing through the contactor? For example if my circuit 1 is blue/black, should the lighting circuit that it feeds also be phased blue/black? Or can all the circuits be defaulted to black/red since it's technically fed by the contactor now?

 

[roger]

See if 210.5(C)(1) might be a problem.

 

[jaggedben]

You may be required to mark the terminations, but not coordinate the conductor insulation.

I think it would be a good *idea* to keep the insulation color consistent. I would appreciate it if I were the maintenance guy. But it's not code required.

 

[BillyMac59]

If you're not going to be consistent with your colour scheme, why tape them at all? A mislabeled conductor is potentially more dangerous than an unlabeled one. Just my $0.02

 

[Dsg319]

Though it’s not required I would keep the color of the wire the same from the source to the load to help with trouble shooting and confusion.

 

[garbo]

Being it is not a code requirement I would much rather have the circuit breaker # on every wire. We always marked every pull box & 1900 box cover what panel feed the enclosed circuits & circuit #'s & the voltage( s ). Have worried on three & up to ten pole lighting contactors that only had two wire type AC or MC cable coming off each pole.