andy pugh schrieb: > Black is only "live" in the latest EU-harmonised 3-phase wiring scheme > (And don't get me started on the insanity of _that_) > > Hello Andy, at least since I was a little boy (half a century ago), black used to be the colour of the live wire in ordinary cables here in Europe. This is because the very first power wires were insulated by strips of linnen soaked with guttappercha and natural rubber, filled with soot. Hence: black colour for the dangerous one. House wiring was done with free dangling wires on wall mounted porcelaine insulators just below the ceiling (I've seen houses like that). The neutral wires weren't insulated at all, later they got a grey coating (less soot in them), still later blue as artificial dyes came up. This coating made it possible to collect the two wires in one single cable. Insanity? Consequence!
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