electrical tape in panel

[David Nice]

Though I have seen it plenty of times I wondered if it is proper when upgrading electrical to cover white wires with electrical tape to make them black when connecting to breakers. If course they don't want it to look like white wires are being connected where they shouldn't be but should they be pigtailing to black wire instead of just covering the white wire with tape?

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

Permanent reidentification.

Personally I don't think black tape is permanent, but apparently most AHJ's are okay with it. However, pigtailing (IMHO) is a bit extreme.

[Michael R. Boyett]

Black/red tape is fine by me. I'll be surprised if there's a legitimate argument against that.

[David Nice]

Originally Posted by mboyett

Black/red tape is fine by me. I'll be surprised if there's a legitimate argument against that.

Cool!

[Robert J. OConnor]

Tape is commonly used in commercial applications to identify wires, but it's not that common for residential work. I guess the sparky didn't have a nice fat sharpie ...

Keep in mind that the ends of that wire need to be re-identified wherever it becomes visible (feed-thru/splice boxes, termination, etc.) ...

[Paul W. Abernathy]

TidBits - Re-identifying the white wire in a cable like NM,AC and MC will allow simply taping BOTH ends to permanently re-identify ( 200.7(c)(1) ) but for those in Chicago and other areas that use conduit...remember you can NEVER use white as a ungrounded conductor...regardless of re-identifying it...Just a little tidbit for you...