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Article #4483Re: Home wiring: Which wire is hot?
From: Kolkka Markku Olavi
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 1990 12:48
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 1990 12:48
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In article <13193@thorin.cs.unc.edu> tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) writes: >Is your "new" color scheme why many equipment power cords have >brown/blue/green-yellow color coding? Where else is it used? I see this >most often inside detachable cords when I cut the female end off to >hardwire it. > The brown/blue/green-yellow scheme is used here in Finland, and I assume it's also used in other European countries. The electical outlets and plugs used here are unpolarized, i.e. you don't have any way of knowing which pin is 'live' and which is 'neutral' (except by using some measuring instrument). >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Steve Tell tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu >CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. -- Markku Kolkka mk59200@tut.fi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!tut!uikku!mk59200 From: mk59200@uikku.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Home wiring: Which wire is hot? Message-ID: <12283@etana.tut.fi> Date: 6 Apr 90 12:48:53 GMT References: <MIKEMC.90Mar28101205@mustang.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com> <1990Mar30.011921.22864@tc.fluke.COM> <557@wraith.cs.uow.oz> <13193@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Sender: News@tut.fi Reply-To: mk59200@uikku.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi) Distribution: sci Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland Lines: 20