14 AWG Striped Wire -THHN, XHHW, XLP, TFN, TFFN, MTW

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14 AWG Striped Wire is often a building wire. It is meant for use as general purpose wiring for installation in conduit or other recognized raceway for applications that need multiple color combinations.

14 AWG Striped wire may also be used for machine tool, appliance and control circuit wiring. It is also suitable for many other general wiring applications that require 600 Volt single conductor wire.

 

 

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Why use a 14 AWG Striped wire?

1. Safety

The #1 reason for utilizing an 14 AWG Striped Wire, or any striped wire is Safety. The reason for striping is to clearly identify the wire when there are many runs of the same type of wire, making extra sure the right wires are used to the right connections, protecting equipment and most importantly, people. Whether the 14 AWG Striped Wire is used in conduit or through a building it’s very important for installers to be able to identify the wire clearly and efficiently so as not to slow the installation process wasting precious time.

Some Common color codes used for safety on your 14 AWG Striped Wire. These safety and caution colors can be striped with numerous colors to help further differentiate the safety designation.

  • Danger colors for 14 AWG Striped wire often need to be red, white and black
  • Caution colors for 14 AWG Striped wire often need to be yellow, black and white
  • Safety colors for 14 AWG Striped wire often need to be green and white
  • Safety red is often used for protection equipment, containers holding flammable liquid, lights at barricades, fire alarm boxes, fire exit signs and sprinkler pipes
  • Safety yellow is often used to denote cautions and hazards, construction equipment,  material handling equipment, pipes carrying dangerous materials, waste containers
  • Safety orange is often used for dangerous machine parts, insides of guards, safety start buttons, exposed parts
  • Along with all these colors there are hundreds, to thousands of other colors and color combinations to help people and equipment stay safe.

2. Visual Communication

Along with general safety, which is the #1 reason for using color coded 14 AWG Striped wire, the second most important reason for having your 14 AWG Striped wire, striped is for visual communication.  With a color coded phase identification stripe the 14 AWG Striped wire can be differentiated to allow maintenance professionals ease of installation, and service work.

  • Colored 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations provide more effective communication
  • Colored 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripes communicate quicker and more effectively
  • Colored 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe combinations result in quicker comprehension
  • Color 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations attract attention
  • Colored 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations draw more attention to the message
  • Colored 14 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations can categorize the message

How are they striped?

The striping process usually consists of 2 types of striping.

  • The first method of striping is called spiral striping which ads a stripe in a spiral direction like a candy cane around the wire.
  • The other method of striping wire is called Vertical Striping. This is where the colored strip is added in a straight line along the wire. You can also have multiple stripes on a single wire!

When installing it can be super helpful to have more than 1 stripe or color on a single cable especially when many runs are being used. You may need to run hundreds or thousands of wires for a single job and need to easily identify each one. With that many 14 AWG Striped Wire pulls you can see just how many colors would be needed!

Ordering your wire pre-striped from 1X is the very best way to solve this problem from your time management and cost effectiveness standpoints. 

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Here is a list of regular color codes you can order and combine this with multi colored stripes the possibilities are endless.

Standard Industry Color Codes

ICEA PAIRED COLOR CODE
Pair
Number		 Leg 1
Color		 Leg 1
Tracer		 Leg 2
Color		 Pair
Number		 Leg 1
Color		 Leg 1
Tracer		 Leg 2
Color
1 Black White 12 Red White White
2 Red White 13 Green White White
3 Green White 14 Blue White White
4 Orange White 15 Black Red White
5 Blue White 16 White Red White
6 White Black White 17 Orange Red White
7 Red Black White 18 Blue Red White
8 Green Black White 19 Red Green White
9 Orange Black White 20 Orange Green White
10 Blue Black White 21 Black White
11 Black White White

COLOR CODE CHART PER NEMA & ICEA METHOD 1/K-1

Cond.
No.		 Base
Color		 1st Tracer
Color		 2nd Tracer
Color
 Cond.
No.
 Base
Color
 1st Tracer
Color		 2nd Tracer
Color
1 Black 31 Green Black Orange
2 White 32 Orange Black Green
3 Red 33 Blue White Orange
4 Green 34 Black White Orange
5 Orange 35 White Red Orange
6 Blue 36 Orange White Blue
7 White Black 37 White Red Blue
8 Red Black 38 Black White Green
9 Green Black 39 White Black Green
10 Orange Black 40 Red White Green
11 Blue Black 41 Green White Blue
12 Black White 42 Orange Red Green
13 Red White 43 Blue Red  Green
14 Green White 44 Black White Blue
15 Blue White 45 White Black Blue
16 Black Red 46 Red White Blue
17 White Red 47 Green Orange Red
18 Orange Red 48 Orange Red Blue
19 Blue Red 49 Blue Red Orange
20 Red Green 50 Black Orange Red
21 Orange Green 51 White Black Orange
22 Black White Red 52 Red Orange Black
23 White Black Red 53 Green Red Blue
24 Red Black White 54 Orange Black Blue
25 Green Black White 55 Blue Black Orange
26 Orange Black White 56 Black Orange Green
27 Blue Black White 57 White Orange Green
28 Black Red Green 58 Red Orange Green
29 White Red Green 59 Green Black Blue
30 Red Black Green 60 Orange Green Blue

COLOR CODE CHART PER NEMA & ICEA METHOD 1/K-2

Cond.
No.		 Base
Color		 Tracer
Color		 Cond.
No.
 Base
Color
 Tracer
Color
1 Black 19 Orange Blue
2 Red 20 Yellow Blue
3 Blue 21 Brown Blue
4 Orange 22 Black Orange
5 Yellow 23 Red Orange
6 Brown 24 Blue Orange
7 Red Black 25 Yellow Orange
8 Blue Black 26 Brown Orange
9 Orange Black 27 Black Yellow
10 Yellow Black 28 Red Yellow
11 Brown Black 29 Blue Yellow
12 Black Red 30 Orange Yellow
13 Blue Red 31 Brown Yellow
14 Orange Red 32 Black Brown
15 Yellow Red 33 Red Brown
16 Brown Red 34 Blue Brown
17 Black Blue 35 Orange Brown
18 Red Blue 36 Yellow Brown

COLOR CODE FOR SO CORDS

Cond.
No.		 Color Tracer
Color		 Cond.
No.
 Color Tracer
Color
1 Black 12 Black White
2 White 13 Red White
3 Green 14 Green White
4 Red 15 Blue White
5 Orange 16 Black Red
6 Blue 17 White Red
7 White Black 18 Orange Red
8 Red Black 19 Blue Red
9 Green Black 20 Red Green
10 Orange Black 21 Orange Green
11 Blue Black *Note: Colors repeat after 21 conductors.

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