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1950s German appliance wiring colour codes
On 4 Oct 2006 16:53:45 -0700, wrote:
|Tony Polson wrote:
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| I have a 1950s German slide projector (anyone remember slides?) which
| I have been using with its German mains plug and an adaptor.
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| I decided to replace the plug with a UK 13A plug. Having removed the
| German plug, I cannot remember which wire went were, and the colour
| coding is unfamiliar to me.
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| There are three wires, coloured red, black and light grey. Can anyone
| tell me which is which? I guessed at
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| red = live
| black = neutral
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| but is the grey wire really the earth?
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| Definitive advice will be very much appreciated!
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|a multimeter will tell you which is which in no time.
The switch should be in the *live* wire.
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