in the US - single phase house wiring - black is hot, white is neutral and green is ground (or bare).
On 7/14/2011 1:24 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 14 July 2011 19:10, Peter Blodow<p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote: > >> 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. > Curious. > > As long as I have been aware of it (probably 35 years since I first > wired a plug) it was red for live and black for neutral in fixed > wiring, and brown for live and blue for neutral in flex. (I presume > that before I noticed they were both red/black). We recently switched > fixed-wiring to brown/blue (which I thought was euro-harmonisation > too). > At the same time 3-phase went from red/blue/yellow with a black > neutral to brown/black/grey with a blue neutral. > So now blue and black can both be live or neutral. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
