romex in wiremold as sleeve?

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I think I can do this legally but here is the situation. I need to run a circuit to the kitchen from the panel which is recessed in the wall in the living room about 30 ft. No access from above or below so they are requesting wiremold 500 surface mounted up high on the wall with 12/2 romex (NM cable) sleeeved through it.
is that legal to do or do i have to strip the outer sheathing? , is a bare ground wire legal if I take off the outer jacket in the metal wiremold 500 conduit? I will be using a wiremold single gang box at each end of the wiremold run so I would need to use a ground screw and ground the metal box so I would strip the insulation in the box anyway.
 
Conductors in a raceway must be marked per 310.11. NM has all that on the sheath, but not on the individual conductors.
 
480sparky said:
Conductors in a raceway must be marked per 310.11. NM has all that on the sheath, but not on the individual conductors.
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You know I've read a few threads about stripping the sheath off of NM and running just the conductors and how everyone is against it... Then while I was watching a MH DVD he was saying how he has no problem with it at all...
It is the same thing we do when we terminate NM at a panel and run "unidentified" conductor to the (breaker/bus etc).

I can't defend it with code but where does 310.11 allow unmarked conductors from the NM connector to the breaker? :smile:
 
Twoskinsoneman said:
Don't need to but you can. Sheath only has to go 1/4" into panel. No way to read identification on recessed/concealed.
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Then, where does the Good Book say you have to be able to read the markings once the installation is complete? Can you read the markings on NM behind the drywall in the kitchen or bedroom?
 
480sparky said:
Then, where does the Good Book say you have to be able to read the markings once the installation is complete? Can you read the markings on NM behind the drywall in the kitchen or bedroom?
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I agree with you it doesn't. In the end it makes no difference to me because to me even if you strip 100 ft of NM after the termination of the sheath and run through conduit it is still limited by the ratings on NM. I don't think you can strip it and run it wet.
 
So I could run the romex through the wiremold only stripping the sheathing off where I install a junction box to ground the box?
And/Or I could strip all the outer sheathing off and run the conductors through the wiremold using the bare ground wire?

I could use THHN but I have a huge supply of romex on hand already so I wouldn't have to purchase 3000ft of thhn.
 
I would use thhn. In the long run you would happier. One thing at bends and 90's that outter jacket would make it rough. And why go throught the trouble of taking all that coving off.
 
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