Say you have a whip with red, black, green, and white wires. Three hot conductors are needed. Does it satisfy national code if you use the green wire as a hot connection and label both ends as "HOT" using electrical tape?
Wiring – Can a green wire be used as hot if it’s reidentified
wiring
Related Topic
- Wiring – How to wire this ceiling light pendant
- Electrical – Installing new ceiling fan. Don’t think there is a white (neutral) wire
- Wiring – When using US-colored 14/3 for a simple switch does the red wire need to be marked
- Electrical – Installing a Remote Control Ceiling Fan with Light & Different Wire Configuration
- Electrical – Hard wiring a 4-wire oven to 3-wire outlet
- Electrical – Replacing outlet; found one white wire hot. How to connect
- Wiring – Light Fixture Stopped Working After Replacing Its Three-Way Switch
- Wiring – new 4-wire GE single-wall oven jts5000snss going into grandfathered 3-wire wall junction
Best Answer
Absolutely not, for 2 reasons.
You need the ground for ground! That metallic jacket is NOT a suitable ground, that's why there's a ground wire.
You are not allowed to re-mark wires that are smaller than 4 AWG (which is huge) with the solitary exception of "marking white to a hot if it's in cable".
What you should do is instead, run flexible metallic conduit (FMC) and run the individual THHN wires that you need for your application.