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nickblake
i always use a bt of coloured heat shrink on my tails so identified electricity suppliers lable them L1 1 L2 L3 and N , and always use brown for live blue for neutral and never 2 blues with heat shrink on
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our compliance manager, he states MOCOPA requirements. i had a look on their website & found this:
"A11.3 For single insulated cables, or the insulation of insulated and sheathed cable, the MOCOPAOperators, Distribution Businesses and UMetS providers shall use the following colours where they provide new or replacement cables.The insulation of the line conductors of a polyphase phase supply shall be either:a. all brown and marked L1, L2, L3 at both ends, orb. brown, black and grey and marked L1, L2, L3 at both ends.All neutral conductors shall have blue insulation and marked N at both ends.For conductors of less than 500mm in length and clearly visible throughout, marking at one end may be considered acceptable.A11.4 For insulated and sheathed cables the sheath may be the same colour as the insulation (as defined in A11.3). Where the sheath colour is not the same as the insulation, then it should be a colour other than brown, black, grey, blue, yellow, red, green or greenyellow, i.e. not any colour that is currently, or has historically, been used to identify line, neutral or earth conductors.
Think its the last bit where it says that if the sheath is not the same colour as the insulation then it should be a colour other than brown black grey blue yellow red green or green/yellow that started it off.^^^ Has anybody bothered to read this properly ?
It states outer sheathing may be the same colour as the insulation , not must.
Therefore not compulsory.
Pfft , thats jobsworths for you.
Think its the last bit where it says that if the sheath is not the same colour as the insulation then it should be a colour other than brown black grey blue yellow red green or green/yellow that started it off.
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