tarquinlinbin wrote:

A common error that a lot of diy electricians make is to assume that
all reds are lives,all blacks are neutrals and all greens are earths.
Also that all reds go together,all blacks go together and all greens
go together.

Yes, thanks to the assholes in Brussels who deemed that grey plastics
manufacturers in France and Germany were being unfairly discriminated
by the red and yellow UK based manufacturers you now sometimes connect
all reds to browns, all blacks to blues while connecting blues to
greys and yellows to blacks, but due to intense lobbying by the tutti
frutti Eire alliance you usually connect all candy striped ones to
greens.


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