Flat 12AWG Wire Legal?

[slijin]

Originally Posted by CalTran

I'd agree that the stuff is cool, and I can relate as to the uses on a competition robot, but we have had experiences where we used 18AGW wire that was white and yellow, and got rejected by an inspector. Not a huge issue, we just swapped out for red and black at the competition. If you can avoid it, I'd suggest you do simply to avoid complications in the future.

Yellow wire is illegal per [R45].

The lack of color coding is an issue because color coding is required as per the connection it's used for, not the polarity of the power flow.