[Amps] what is a 4 wire 240VAC service?

[Mark Robinson]

Brown is live in the UK wiring scheme. Blue is Neutral

It used to be red and black before being changed to brown and blue.

Mark N1UK





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "Amps" <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] what is a 4 wire 240VAC service?


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:27:37 -0700 (PDT), Roger Parsons <ve3zi at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>(2) What bright spark decided that black was a good colour choice for the 
>>hot wire?
>
> REPLY:
>
> Sounds logical to me. Think of the Black Death.  :-)
>
> A better question is why black is used for ground in the electronics
> world. Isn't ground brown?
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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