power cord for 11/34?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jan 21 15:43:26 2004

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> The end of the power cord is snipped off this 11/34a I have in front of
> me...
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> It has a blue wire, a brown wire and a green striped wire.
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> I'm assuming the green striped is ground. Brown hot and blue neutral?

Exactly.

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> (I think this is a standard, but I shy away from voltages above 48vdc :-)

It's certainly a standard used in England and the rest of Europe. All our
flexible mains cables (not the rigid ones used for house wiring inside
walls [1]) use this colour code.

[1] House wiring colours, at least for single phase, are : red = live,
black = neutral, bare (but sleved with green or green/yellow sleeving at
the termination points) = earth)

-tony
Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 15:43:26 GMT