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- Striped THHN
- Striped THWN
- Striped XHHW
- Striped XLP— USE
- Striped MTW
- Striped FEP Teflon
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Why use an 8 AWG Striped wire?
- Safety
The #1 reason for utilizing an 8 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 8 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 8 AWG Striped Wire. These safety and caution colors can be striped with numerous colors to help further differentiate the safety designation.
- Danger colors for 8 AWG Striped wire often need to be red, white and black
- Caution colors for 8 AWG Striped wire often need to be yellow, black and white
- Safety colors for 8 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.
- Visual Communication
Along with general safety, which is the #1 reason for using color coded 8 AWG Striped wire, the second most important reason for having your 8 AWG Striped wire, striped is for visual communication. With a color coded phase identification stripe the 8 AWG Striped wire can be differentiated to allow maintenance professionals ease of installation, and service work.
- Colored 8 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations provide more effective communication
- Colored 8 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripes communicate quicker and more effectively
- Colored 8 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe combinations result in quicker comprehension
- Color 8 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations attract attention
- Colored 8 AWG Striped wire Jacket and Stripe Combinations draw more attention to the message
- Colored 8 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. Here is an example:
- The other method of striping wire is called Vertical Striping. This is where the colored stripe is added in a straight line along the wire. You can also have multiple stripes on a single wire! Here is an example:
When installing, it can be helpful to have more than 1 stripe or color on a single cable. This is especially true 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 8 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
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. |