power cord for 11/34?

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Fri Jan 23 15:47:03 2004

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From: "Gordon JC Pearce" <gordonjcp_at_gjcp.net>
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: power cord for 11/34?


> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 21:43, Tony Duell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The end of the power cord is snipped off this 11/34a I have in front
of
> > > me...
> > >
> > > It has a blue wire, a brown wire and a green striped wire.
> > >
> > > I'm assuming the green striped is ground. Brown hot and blue neutral?
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > >
> > > (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.
>
> Erm, it's standard in Scotland, Wales and Ireland too...

 err, except those places don't exist , do they ?
We get this all the time from the Anglosaxons, only England exists - until
something goes wrong - then the Brits get the blame. Geoff.


> Gordon.
>
>
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