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Article #9490Re: ANOTHER house wiring question (this one's basic)
From: David E A Wilson
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:33
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 22:33
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bender@oobleck.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Bender) writes: >anyone know why they choose BLACK for the hot wire and WHITE for >neutral? I always associated black wires with ground. I wondered about that too when I saw some North American terminals over here in Australia. We used RED (now BROWN) = Active, BLACK (now BLUE) = Neutral and GREEN (now GREEN with YELLOW stripe) and all the terminals had neutral and active swapped (presumably when the importer installed the Australian crow foot* plugs). The new colours are the IEC standard. * Active / \ Neutral (facing power socket) | Ground (10 Amp General Purpose Outlet) (15 Amp has larger earth pin) (20 Amp has all pins larger) -- David Wilson Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong david@cs.uow.edu.au
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