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Thread: Electrical Wiring Question
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16th April 2005, 05:14 PM #1
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Electrical Wiring Question
Hi All,
I know that it is red active, black nuetral and green earth in most wiring. The question is with brown, blue and green, which is active the brown or blue. This will be checked by the electrician in the end but I thought I would look like a goose in front of you lot rather than one sparky.
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16th April 2005, 05:23 PM #2
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Brown is the active
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16th April 2005, 06:07 PM #3
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I always remember it like this :
Red / bRown = active
bLack / bLue = neutralThe Thief of BadGags
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16th April 2005, 07:08 PM #4
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Originally Posted by johnc
Why?
There are more of us, and we have long memories, but you would deal with only one sparky.
Peter.
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17th April 2005, 12:34 AM #5
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I remember my physics teacher from high school taught us a good way to remember which colour is the active wire - if you touch it you are in the s**t, and s**t is brown.
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17th April 2005, 10:21 AM #6
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Thanks for the info, and the tips to help remember, something I would not have got from the sparky.
JohnC
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17th April 2005, 10:24 AM #7
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One 'oldskool' method my dad taught me was to remember that brown is like a snake ... it you touch it you will get bitten !
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17th April 2005, 07:04 PM #8
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I learnt this one way way back for GPO's, hope it comes out all right on the board.
(f****ng proportional fonts and mindless other problems getting this to work, check the ugly HTML tags if you dare
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.../_\ ..|\.|
../...\..|.\|
...... _
......|_
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i.e. you form the letters A N and E from the slots of the GPO, looking from the front, as installed.
Works for me.Ray
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17th April 2005, 07:06 PM #9
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Oh yeah, as for colors
BLack = BLue
The rest are obvious from there
Ray
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19th April 2005, 01:45 PM #10
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[QUOTE=zathras]
i.e. you form the letters A N and E from the slots of the GPO, looking from the front, as installed.QUOTE]
Dont forget the plug is opposite (unless youre looking at it from the back though)
Active wires are "warm" colours
Neutral wires are "cold" coloursI allus has wun at eleven
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19th April 2005, 05:39 PM #11
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Just a warning -NEVER- assume an active or netural as a particular colour!
For example in 3 phase the active colours are red, white and blue. Also in switching cables i've seen many sparkies use red & black (basically whatever they seem to have on hand).
If your not sure please seek professional advice.
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19th April 2005, 05:59 PM #12
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I remember when I rewired part of may flat in Scotland Originally Posted by Ziggy
They were the original rubber coated single cables - although most had lost large sections of the rubber coating.
It's great fun trying to reconnect your cables when all three coming from a socket are red.They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse
