Wire and switch

[andemz]

yesterday i purchased what i thought was SWA 1.5mm lighting cable, to use for outdoor switch. The cable colours are, Brown, black and Grey. i take this to be L1, L2 and L3 and that athese present red, yellow and Blue. Am i mistaken or have they sold me the worng cable. I should have got Brown, Blue and the earth. I know i can use the cables as any color as long as i mark them up, but i really think that is bad, if that is the case.

Switch:
I got an outdoor weatherproof switch labelled 1 and L, i take 1 to be the switched live and L to be the live feed. This is correct as no diagram included. the switch is one gang one way.

Would anyone offer an opinion in how they would lable the cable up and what colours they would use for L, N and E given my colours above.

Thanks

 

[Adam_151]

If you want to use 3 core SWA for single phase, sleeve the black as earth and the grey as neutral

 

[andemz]

Thanks for that.

What about the switch.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

yesterday i purchased what i thought was SWA 1.5mm lighting cable, to use for outdoor switch. The cable colours are, Brown, black and Grey. i take this to be L1, L2 and L3 and that athese present red, yellow and Blue. Am i mistaken or have they sold me the worng cable. I should have got Brown, Blue and the earth. I know i can use the cables as any color as long as i mark them up, but i really think that is bad, if that is the case.

3-core SWA never has an earth core - it's always just had the phase colours - if you'd bought pre-harmonisation stuff it would have been red, yellow & blue, not red, black & G/Y, so what would you have done then?

Switch:
I got an outdoor weatherproof switch labelled 1 and L, i take 1 to be the switched live and L to be the live feed. This is correct as no diagram included. the switch is one gang one way.

If it's a 1-way switch, it doesn't matter....

 

[plugwash]

i take this to be L1, L2 and L3 and that athese present red, yellow and Blue. Am i mistaken or have they sold me the worng cable. I should have got Brown, Blue and the earth. I know i can use the cables as any color as long as i mark them up, but i really think that is bad, if that is the case.

while you can get 3 core SWA with single phase colors its rare and expensive so re-marking the stuff designed for 3 phase is the norm.