Sleeving of 5 core cable for lighting circuit.

[Des 56]

Bring back Red/White and Blue I say

Don;t someone say Yellow,that was when things started getting silly


Just a thought,
I wonder if anyone knows "why" they came up with these silly colour schemes ( because I don't)

Was it because they are so inappropriate that no country had ever thought of using them, it was ideal for not having to chose between any country

 

[Robotstar5]

whatever way, the sleeving will still be muddy, hard to see in poor light , stupid foreign harmonised ( with who?) daft phase colours.

Bring back the British Empire, make it Red, White & Blue!

 

[telectrix]

nahh, red/white and green ( welsh empire )

 

[Knobhead]

Bring back the British Empire, make it Red, White & Blue!

It all went wrong in 1977

 

[snowhead]

Bring back Red/White and Blue I say

Don;t someone say Yellow,that was when things started getting silly
Just a thought,
I wonder if anyone knows "why" they came up with these silly colour schemes ( because I don't)

Was it because they are so inappropriate that no country had ever thought of using them, it was ideal for not having to chose between any country

Definition of Harmomisation is making something that no-one can understand,, then there won't be any confusion.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

...stupid foreign harmonised ( with who?) daft phase colours.

Nobody was using the harmonised phase colours, however all of Europe minus the UK was using Blue for Neutral for fixed wiring, we had however, been using it in flexible cord for a number years. It was the UK harmonisation working group that proposed Brown, Black, Grey for the phases to CENELEC. They expected to have a fight on their hands and had a bargaining strategy planned, however the proposal was adopted with barely a whimper from the member countries representatives and no bargaining required (the only time, so far), despite every country having to change to the new code.

 

[DurhamSparky]

Stick with brown black grey.... I have red green colour blindness!!! Lol

 

[telectrix]

Stick with brown black grey.... I have red green colour blindness!!! Lol

so now we make stop/start buttons brown /black?????

 

[1shortcircuit]

It all went wrong in 1977

I agree, that was the year I was born mwah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaa

 

[telectrix]

1977? flaming youngster. i was just getting into VCR repairs as these were new fangled contraptions and as a TV repair company, we had to learn how to fix these as well.