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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
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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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