Blue-Ushas; Green-Urth -- Problems

matthew.malthouse · 06 Jan 2003, 11:37 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk
Subject: Re: (urth) Blue-Ushas; Green-Urth -- Problems
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:37:26 +0000
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On 05/01/2003 19:46:30 Gareth Jelley wrote:

>> > Re: "No, no, NO, GREEN is Urth", I thought I'd add this on (from the
joke
>> > angle), though it's not much of a joke unless you're an engineer. In
various
>> > types of power cords, there tend to be three wires of different
colors. The
>> > colors mean different things, depending on what kind of wiring it is,
but  as
>> > far as I know there is almost always a green, and it corresponds to:
>> > "Earth". (the others being "line", and "neutral")
>
>I thought the brown wire was the 'earth' wire... But I'm not an
>electrician...

Wire it that way and you'll blow the breakers.  Here in Eurp brown is
conventionally live.

Matthew



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