On Feb 14, 8:10*pm, Nate Nagel wrote:
RBM wrote:
"Red Green" wrote in message
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A diagram for a Bosch sander I have shows a brown (braun) and a blue (blau)
wire from the cord. It shows which goes where to the switch. The existing
cord is a US cord with, of course, a black and a white. I had to get a new
switch and did not note which went where on the old switch.

Checking the new swith input and output terminals I found which is neutral
(US the white wire) because this is always on regardless of switch
position. This has to be for the white wire since the golden rule is white
wire never gets interupted by a device.

So, from the diagram it seems that European (German anyway) that brown is
hot and blue is neutral. Anyone really confirm this?

Correct: Blue is neutral, Brown is hot

That makes no damn sense, as brown is ground on German cars.

Of course, we have plenty of white wires used as hot on American cars too....

nate

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Agree with Nate, the German auto standard is brown for ground wires.
Don't know if the standard applies to the German commercial sector,
but wouldn't be surprised if it did.

Joe