Lobster wrote:

I'm in the middle of wiring up a cable for an electrical hook up to
be used while camping in France. I have a French 3-pin plug bought
there on a previous visit, but in opening it up I find there's
absolutely no indication which of the two power pins is live and
neutral. Doesn't it matter?

I will be using the cable with an RCD device; won't that object and
trip out if the wiring's the wrong way round? Or is it a case of
"suck it and see" when I get to France, and if it's wrong, reverse
the wiring?

Frankly I've found it doesn't, in practice, matter what you use.
Sister took about four different cables to cover all 'reversed wiring'
possibilities, along with a tester , and took about an hour to figure
it all out to her satisfaction. We just plugged in and that was it.

We know for certain that one of the sites was reverse polarity, so all
we did was not leave stuff, phone charger etc, plugged in!

s'easy ...

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Paul - xxx

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