You don't get a choice about the colour, they only come in red, black and white. There isn't any green, blue, yellow or orange. Sometimes the black is more grey than black apparently, they all look the same colour to me though.
One of the postings had a pretty good tip, to put black tape on the end of the white wire to indicate it to be hot. This may be code now, I have never seen it done but I am never into modern wiring either. I haven't seen green covering over ground wire here in Canada either but it was code to put a sleeve over the ground (earth) wire when I did a little wiring in England way back in 1971. I now see it referred to here but I don't know if it is code. They now also want the ground and all other lines to be pigtailed with a connector to the switch or what ever terminal in many places these days, I don't do it but I may be in breach of code. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gallik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] hello and 3-way switches > You shouldn't use white for one of the travelers. White is typically used > to indicate neutral -- the line leading back to the service panel. Don't > use green neither because that's the color for ground. The red is fine, > you > might consider using blue, yellow or orange for the other traveler. > > Otherwise, you've got the idea pretty well in hand. The connectors on the > 3-pole switches will be color coded to indicate the type of connector; the > two traveler connectors will be the same color and the "odd ball" colored > connector will be for the "hot" or neutral. > ---------------- > Bill Gallik > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless > laughter can be said to remedy anything." > - Kurt Vonnegut > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 9/12/2006 > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
