Aluminum small conductors
gfretwell
4 hours ago
I was in an inspector conference about a decade ago and a rep from Alcan was trying to rehabilitate aluminum for small branch circuit wiring.Evidently it worked One of the electrician groups on Facebook was talking about it and had a picture of 10ga aluminum Romex. In keeping with the color denoting ampacity, it was yellow. The responses ranged from "I have used it" to "That stuff is illegal".
It is true that the NEC never banned this but public perception made it unusable. The 75 code did spell out the rules for using aluminum (A8xxx alloy, CO/ALr devices etc) but it was never banned.
Have any of you used this?
