Although I will agree that it, IN THIS CASE, is not that big of a deal to remark the white wire green, it is still a code violation.
There are very specific rules as to small conductor identification.
True, the wire does not know what it is doing, BUT WE DO.
A green or bare is a ground. NEVER anything else. A ground should NEVER carry circuit current, ONLY fault current.
A neutral is (almost) ALWAYS white or grey, and carries normal circuit current.
THIS is why it matters what it does once it leaves the main box.
--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, "hapennyherald" <hapennyherald@...> wrote:
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> Am fascinated by this whole thread I inadvertantly started. My thinking was the two wires bare and white are literally in adjacen.t
> holes in the bar in the main box. My plan was to use the larger white and mark it (paint it green at both ends) It's a wire and really doesn't know it's "function" nor does it make any real difference if the ground is insulated or not except to identify it between the connections. If it is green at each end then it is identified.
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> David
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