Gerald Miller wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:08:55 GMT, "invntrr"
wrote:


Lots of offshore machines USA here use seperate ground and common wires.
You see green ground and green with a stripe common . One is ground
the other is common


On some sites, green is ground while green with yellow stripe
indicates computer or direct connected ground, ie not routed through
even so much as a junction box.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

About fifty years ago an American service man was moved to Berlin in
Germany. He decided to rent there an house and shipped his belongings.
One slight problem, the cord connector (plug) of the washing machine
did not fit in the outlet.
The old cord from the USA had in it a green conductor connected to
ground and black(power) and white connected to the motor. He called an
electrian to put a new plug on. He connected the black wire to the
ground pin and the white and green wires to the other pins of the new
plug. (At that time yellow was used as a ground wire and green as an
acceptable color for power in Germany.)
When his wife used the washer she got electrocuted and died.
It was decided to standardize over the whole world the color for the
ground wi It must be for at least 30% green and the rest yellow
and/or not more than 70% green and the rest yellow. A ground wire
(also called earth) is directly connected to the frame or housing of
equipment. It is NOT the same as 'neutral' or 'common' which in North
America is white. HTH.
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