Timeline for Two different color wires under single outlet screw
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| May 12, 2021 at 16:23 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 12, 2021 at 13:38 | comment | added | FreeMan | I'll say it explicitly: There are two white wires under the bottom screw on the left side. Those should be pig-tailed as well since 2 wires are just as illegal here as they are on the other side. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | NoSparksPlease | @KH The NEC generally only requires phase designation by color or tagging when premises branch circuits are fed with more than one nominal voltage system. And then it doesn't specify the colors you have to use except for colors reserved for neutral (grey,white), ground (green,green w/yellow stripe). High leg delta must be orange, but otherwise is often used for 277Y/480v b-leg. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDIY/status/1392404188064325632 | ||
| May 12, 2021 at 6:12 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 12, 2021 at 3:00 | comment | added | K H | @ThreePhaseEel for Canada at the least it should be marked with a band of tape of a 120V color, although I have seen inspectors allow permission for a non-standard wire color for an entire specific system to increase clarity of overall building wiring or when system voltage has been changed, it's unusual. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 2:52 | comment | added | ThreePhaseEel | @KH -- yellow for a hot is perfectly fine in North America, it just doesn't show up in "normal" NM cable, that's all | |
| May 12, 2021 at 2:49 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 12, 2021 at 2:23 | comment | added | K H | Yellow in a 120V system? Where do you live? I don't see any countries with color codes that use white as neutral and black and yellow together as line. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 22:31 | vote | accept | James | ||
| May 11, 2021 at 22:26 | answer | added | Ed Beal | timeline score: 16 | |
| May 11, 2021 at 22:16 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 11, 2021 at 22:11 | history | asked | James | CC BY-SA 4.0 |