Identification of Conductors by Colour

[securespark]

 

[JohnW2]

What is/was a "flexible cable other than a flexible cord"??

Kind Regards, John

 

[Echo the husky]

Doesn't a cord become a cable over a certain CSA? I forget what size it changes!

 

[JohnW2]

Doesn't a cord become a cable over a certain CSA? I forget what size it changes!

I hadn't heard that- I thought a flexible cable became a cord, or vice versa, when it crossed the Atlantic

Kind Regards, John

 

[securespark]

Ne' mind all that! Look at the colours!

 

[stillp]

On the subject of colours, there's a proposal to standardise the colour for functional earth conductors as yellow.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Do you mean the black earth or

the white yellow phase?

 

[EFLImpudence]

On the subject of colours, there's a proposal to standardise the colour for functional earth conductors as yellow.

Of course there is; far too little confusion around at the moment.

 

[securespark]

Do you mean the black earth or

the white yellow phase?

Both those (like the "phase Y" being white!!) and the "white with green sleeve" earth.

But if the earth is black, how do you distinguish it from the neutral?

 

[Taylortwocities]

But if the earth is black, how do you distinguish it from the neutral?

Call it sable, maybe?

 

[Echo the husky]

I've seen red used for earth and for main bonding in more than one property, black is still seen in a few places.
I'm quite surprised the geniuses at CENELEC haven't changed all 3 phases and the neutral conductor to brown, after all they are all live conductors!

 

[stillp]

They all look the same if you're colour-blind Echo.

 

[stillp]

the geniuses at CENELEC

Actually it's the IEC TC3.

 

[JohnW2]

I've seen red used for earth and for main bonding in more than one property, black is still seen in a few places.

I've shown this picture of the origin of my installation a number of times before - I guess that 'they' (I believe East Midlands Electricity Board at the time) must have run out of black-insulated cable (and forgot to take the outer sheath into the Henley)!

Note also the red/blue/green phase indication, subsequently translated to A/B/C by the cable markers!.



Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnW2]

What happened to my piccie? Trying again ....



Kind Regards, John