line cord color code

[Bill Marx]

what?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Johnson" <scottjohnson1 at COX.NET>
To: <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: line cord color code


> If it has blue and brown,convention dictates the brown should be hot (fuse
> side), although the IEC colors blue and brown and brown are both hot, as the
> europeans have no neutral reference from line to ground.(The ground is only
> for safety, and you have to get across both sides of the 230V line to get
> zapped) In the US, however, the neutral is the center tap of the 230V
> secondary of the distribution xfmr. The cord, incidently, must be a
> replacement.  I have never seen an AC-4 with IEC colors.
> 73
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV]On Behalf Of JR LINDEN
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: line cord color code
>
>
> I've got a Drake AC-4 power supply with the ac plug cut off.  Could someone
> tell me the proper hookup for the blue and brown wires?  The green is ground
> but does it matter which of the other two is hot or line.  Tnx......JR
> K7PUR
>
>
> JR Linden  K7PUR
> Cave Creek, AZ
>
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