Where Can I Buy Striped Wire?

First, New customers often tell us how difficult it is to find a supplier for the unique wire & cable type they need. They are constantly asking themselves, “where can I buy striped wire?”

Additionally, When it comes to Striped Wire and Cable it seems there are many customers who would like to have this service. The issue is that not many distributors can supply it.

Luckily, you found us. You now have the very best supplier for Striped Wire & Cable in the United States.

Let us know what type of striped wire or cable you need to buy right now. We’ll be happy to help.

We can help you with many striped wire types:

• Striped THHN Building Wire.
• Striped TFFN & TFN.
• Striped MTW Hook Up Wire.
• Striped FEP Teflon High Temp Wire.
• Striped Rubber Cords & More.

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What is Striped Wire used for?

First, Striped Wire is used in many applications. One of the most common uses is in building applications by electrical contractors. Striped Wire that is building wire is meant for use as general purpose wiring for installation in conduit or other recognized raceway for applications that need multiple color combinations.

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

Why use a Striped Wire?

1. Safety.

The #1 reason for utilizing a Striped Wire is Safety. Specifically, the reason for striping is to clearly identify the wire when there are many runs of the same type of wire. Furthermore, this helps to make extra sure the right wires are used to the right connections. Ultimately, by using striped wire you are protecting equipment and most importantly, people.

Whether the 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. You don’t want anything to slow the installation process. Wasting precious time is out of the question.

Additionally, Common color codes are used for safety on your Striped Wire.

These safety and caution colors can be striped with numerous colors to help further differentiate the safety designation.

• Danger colors for Striped wire often need to be red, white and black.
• Caution colors for Striped wire often need to be yellow, black and white.
• Safety colors for 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 Striped wire, the second most important reason for using Striped wire is for visual communication.  With a color coded phase identification stripe applied during manufacturing, the Striped wire can be differentiated to allow maintenance professionals ease of installation. Additionally, this will also help when doing service work.

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

How is Striped Wire manufactured?

The striping process usually consists of 2 types of striping.

• The first method of striping is called spiral striping which adds 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 stripe is added in a straight line along the wire. You can also have multiple stripes on a single wire! Many contractors use this method for striped wire used in the building of electrical construction.

When installing Striped Wire, 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 striped wire individually.

With that many 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, you need to consider it. 

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Below is a list of regular color codes you can order for your striped wire. Combine this with multi-colored stripes the possibilities are endless.

Standard Industry Color Codes for striped wire.

COLOR CODE CHART. PER NEMA & ICEA METHOD 1/K-1. Striped Wire Color Options.

COLOR CODE CHART. PER NEMA & ICEA METHOD 1/K-2. Striped Wire Color Options.

COLOR CODE FOR SO CORDS. Striped Wire Color Options.