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Paul: Reminds me of a client who wanted to know what colors PVC conduit was available in! I said 'gray'; she said what shade? Needless to say...she hired a painter; two attempts later...she had 'federal blue' PVC to blend in with the architecture.
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John
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Around here I've seen only white 14GA, yellow 12GA, orange 10GA, and black (in 8GA or larger... might be type SE). Are there other colors now?
Mike Wescoatt
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John I used EMT to put in all the lights around my pool. (18 H101s and 5 motion sensors) My screen cage is bronze (dark brown) so I had to paint it all. I ended up bending all the pipe. Putting it up to be sure it all fit, then taking it down and shooting it and putting it back up. It was a PITA but the result was worth it.
Greg Fretwell
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Blue NM for the arc fault circuits and yellow for the 20A kitchen circuits. Blue???? Anyway, I thought this was a NECA thing with the colors - and they got the manufacturers to comply with thier whims. A supply house I go to had an enormous amount of NM stock piled that took them 4 YEARS to get rid of. And for a while after they changed the color to yellow on #12 you would need to point out to the inspectors that it was #12 - just several years old.
Mark Heller "Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason
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I do rememer light blue NM long time ago
Bill
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There was a lot of blue NM in the early 80s. I am not sure who was making it. I also saw dark brown NM in the same time period.
Greg Fretwell
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In late 1960s Phelps-Dodge made a blue colored NM cable. Building I saw it in was built 1968.
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We used the light blue Phelps-Dodge blue cable well into the late 1970's in new work. A lot of their cable was also black. What was odd was that in many cases, the black conductor was actually brown. I don't know if this was intentional or just a case of someone not mixing enough dye into the batch.
We also used a lot of cable made by Cadillac Cable that had a green or brown jacket.
I'd say that it's safe to guess that it was just a case of manufacturers wanting their product to be more identifiable.
---Ed---
"But the guy at Home Depot said it would work."
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I turned up some unusual NM in my house, probably installed in the late 70s, early 80s. It actually had color coded copper. The white wire had a silver cast to it and the black was a deep bronze color.
Greg Fretwell
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