Hi In Germany we have following colors: L1 black L2 brown L3 black N blue PE green-yellow
How do we identify them ? "L2 is between heaven (blue) and earth (green-yellow)" (you can take brown for earth as well) Best regards Georg Dancau rbus...@es.com wrote: > I believe these colors to be correct. It is puzzling however that we > have one brown and two blacks representing all three phases. Some > three > phase devices are phase sensitive (motors for example). Why not three > different colors, e.g. Brown, Black and XXXX? > > Rick Busche > rbus...@es.com > -----Original Message----- > From: dfitz...@apcc.com [mailto:dfitz...@apcc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 9:53 AM > To: emc-p...@ieee.org > Subject: Three Phase Wiring > > I have the following information for wiring an > international three phase > unit; > Five wire- 4 conductors plus ground > Line- 1 brown, 2 blacks > Neutral - 1 light blue > Ground - 1 green/yellow > Are these colors correct? > How do you differentiate between the two blacks? > Is there a standard that mandates colors for three > phase > wiring? > Thank you for any information. > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion > list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to > majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without > the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > j...@gwmail.monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > j...@gwmail.monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). -- ************************************************************** * Dr. Georg M. Dancau * HAUNI MASCHINENBAU AG * * g.m.dan...@ieee.org * Manager EMC Lab * * TEL: +49 40 7250 2102 * Kampchaussee 8..32 * * FAX: +49 40 7250 3801 * 21027 Hamburg, Germany * ************************************************************** * home: Tel: +49 4122 99451 * Hauptstr. 60a * * Fax: +49 4122 99454 * 25492 Heist, Germany * ************************************************************** --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, j...@gwmail.monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).