Red tape on white wire?

[Fulthrotl]

Same applies, you can remark a white in a cable and you can't remark a white in a raceway.

that's ok. most of the stuff i run across is all green conductors taped up, anyway.

makes it hard to decide which ground to use as a pull line to pull in more grounds.

 

[norcal]

Here is a photo of a 208V 3Ø feed (since removed) using 12 AWG green conductors in a circa 1968 Zinsco panel.



In the past it seems it was more tolerated to use green as hots, but it is just another example to never trust what you see.

 

[Smart $]

Are you saying
If I pull a NM cable from point A to point B and in the middle of the run I bend the cable in half but don't cut it and shove it into a single gang box for a future outlet then go back and strip the outside sheath off of the NM in that box but don't cut the wires that I have to re sheath it or I've created a code violation if I don't terminate?

Or leave a stripped NM folded up but not terminated in a panel?

We are talking cable terminations, not conductor terminations. Where the sheath is stripped from cable, a cable termination is created. If the sheath is stripped from a cable in the middle, you then have at least 4 cable terminations, regardless of whether the conductors are cut or terminated.

 

[jap]

We are talking cable terminations, not conductor terminations. Where the sheath is stripped from cable, a cable termination is created. If the sheath is stripped from a cable in the middle, you then have at least 4 cable terminations, regardless of whether the conductors are cut or terminated.

I'm not following you.


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[jap]

I get what your saying now. Took me a little bit.


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[jap]

Once the sheath is removed from the cable, you must either make a compliant cable termination or re-sheath the cable. In this vain, a cable will always have two ends and no exposed conductors in between ends.

A string of piercing type temp lighting on a run of romex would not satisfy this rule.

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