On Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:42:14 UTC+1, TMH wrote:
On 06/06/2019 17:49, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 06/06/2019 17:33, mm0fmf wrote:
On 06/06/2019 13:22, Clive Arthur wrote:
My fan heater packed up, so I checked the plug fuse.Â* It was ok, but
the power cord has two wires, a green insulated one to neutral and a
white insulated one to live.Â* Double insulated so no earth.

Where is that used?Â* I guess the heater was from Lidl being branded
'Silvercrest'.

BTW, it's working again now - sticky tilt switch.

White is used for the live side in US mains cables.

Nah, black is live, white is neutral IIRC.

And red is used for earth in Japanese cables. I kid you not.


Well, in nature green things are generally alive, and earth is usually
brown.Â* I suppose grey is fairly neutral.

Anyway, the cable in question has all the right markings and seems to be
good quality.

Cheers

I reckon the colours should be blue for live "electric blue", magnolia
for neutral (because it is) & brown for earth (because it is).

most live stuff on this planet is green. Or perhaps we should appease some political faction by permitting anything from cream to pink to brown to black.


NT