Fair enough - but it's still a new one on me. I'm not aware of any other colour core (other than a bare copper earth wire) that one would expect to find in a cable together with a red and a black - Anyone? I take it that you are certain that it is not (as I mentioned earlier) a bare copper-coloured wire?I think it was brown. I know it is definatley part of the same cable, as I've said I used a multimeter to test the continuity of the 3 wires from the second switch to the first and they are all ok.
Possibly - but then even more bizarre than an electrician should put blue tape over that brown sleeving! However, as I said originally, I do rather fear that a bare conductor (even if sleeved at the ends!) of T+E may be being used as a live conductor.Brown sleeve on bare conductor ???
I do.do you agree with me that no standard cable would have had a third core of any colour (let alone brown), other than a bare CPC, along with a red and black?
Indeed, as I said originally, that does seem likely - although it's rather ironic that, of all possible colours, the electrician chose to use blue tape ('all he had', I guess!!)!Yes agreed. It will be the cpc with sleeving or the isolation of some flex! The "electrician" has put tape on to hold it in place. ... Or it's a perished rubber !
Thanks. I presumably need not tell you that, when faced with apparently contradictory information, most of us have times when we come to doubt ourselves, no matter how 'certain' we areI do. Why do you doubt it?do you agree with me that no standard cable would have had a third core of any colour (let alone brown), other than a bare CPC, along with a red and black?
Yes ! sorry, wine ………..Indeed, as I said originally, that does seem likely - although it's rather ironic that, of all possible colours, the electrician chose to use blue tape ('all he had', I guess!!)!Yes agreed. It will be the cpc with sleeving or the iNsUlation of some flex! The "electrician" has put tape on to hold it in place. ... Or it's a perished rubber !
I thought that I was the only person whose brain/fingers partook of 'semi-phonetic typos' - do I take it that "isolation" should read 'insulation"?
Kind Regards, John
No need to apologise - I may well be ahead of you this evening, the first bottle having been opened some time agoYes ! sorry, wine ………..
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