| ??? 02/11/09 21:31 Read: times |
#162297 - This is just another punch on the English... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
... from the European Union... ;-)
After pushing you into SI units and making you to drop the voltage by 10V... We generally followed German and French standards, and it was brown/black/gray for L1-L2-L3 (Live/Line? honestly don't know) over here ever since, even if it was called X-Y-Z and/or R-S-T back then; blue for N (neutral) and yellow-green for PE (Protective Earth). We had also a local specialty, a two-line installation, allowed only in apartments (but used widely there, to spare metal, mainly aluminium (the other sin of that era)), where PE and N was drawn together as "PEN"; unfortunately the color code was yellow-green making it indistinguishable from the proper PE (and, more sadly, too many workers did not care to use the colored conductors properly, so you might encounter the wildest combinations of colors in the buildings of that unfortunate era). But red? Never... JW |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| just came to wonder | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Because the Neutral is blue? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| US-ian | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Danger! Different national conventions apply! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| This is just another punch on the English... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| now ... don't quote me on this ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| standard | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| DC system? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Answer is wrong - and Dangerous | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| This is AC ... What does "positive" mean? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here is an informative thread you can read | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Which nation? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not sure how you missed this... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sorry, small letters | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| US-NEC Wiring Colors | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a very good guess Caleb, thanks | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I don't know their reasons, but | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I continue to | 01/01/70 00:00 |