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The real problem is when there's no employees available to open the cabinet. I'm sorry, Home Depot, but I'm not going to run around the store trying to find someone only to have them call someone else just so I can get a $50 roll of copper wire.
I just had to do this at lowes for a measily 15ft of Romex and again for a breaker.
It's ridiculous. I had the same issue for a 50ft roll of 14 gauge romex. Not even the good 10/3 stuff. This was bottom-of-the-barrel 14/2. I was then able to walk over and grab a $100 cable tester and a box of CAT6 right off the shelf.
I guess crackheads aren't stealing cable testers or ethernet cable.
What's Romex? I have no idea what this conversation is about but I'd love to know lol
"Romex" is a brand name for a type of non-metallic (NM) insulated wire. It's pretty much the standard for 95% of the wire that's run in a typical house in North America, and kind of looks like a big flat extension cable. There's an external plastic sheath that holds all the wires together (that's the non-metallic part, as opposed to say, running it in metal conduit), and then each wire inside is also insulated, aside from the ground conductor. When you see something like 12/2 or 10/3, that's the wire gauge (12 or 10 gauge) and then the number of current carrying conductors on the inside (2 or 3, plus a ground).
Romex is that whitish electrical cable you sometimes see in unfinished basements, goes from the breaker box to junction boxes. White cable, nailed to the studs with that white plastic tab with a nail on each side, goes to a blue or metal box with outlets in it.
The copper in that is pretty thick so nowadays a lot of places lock up the wires so people don't try to make off with a bunch of it
I'm not a professional electrician, but I believe the color of the cable is standardized, too. The white cable you refer to is 14-gauge, which is standard for a 15-amp household outlet. 12-gauge is yellow, and 10-gauge is orange.
I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, though.