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If your light fixture has a brown and blue and yellow-green wire and you think the yellow-green wire is the ground which of the brown and blue is neutral and power?
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∙ 11y ago
European electrical equipment, fittings and fixtures have wires coloured as follows:
Brown for Hot (also known as "Line" in Europe)
Blue for Neutral
Green/Yellow stripes for Ground (also known as "Earth")
So it seems to me that your light fixture may have come from Europe.
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Which is the Hot wire and which is the Neutral wire if the wires you see are a Brown a Blue and a Yellow Green wire?
Brown = Hot Blue = Neutral Yellow/Green = Ground
How do you install a light fixture that has two brown wires and a ground?
So long as you conect the ground/earth to the green wire/earth You can conect the other two wires any way around you like.
How to wire a plug with blue brown and Black?
Test the wire with a meter to determine which wire is your hot, which is your neutral, and which is your ground. Those colors are indicative of a 240v circuit normally, so you may have two hots and a ground. Other wise Hot=Black, Neutral=White, and Ground=Green for placement. On your plug, Black/Hot goes to the brass colored terminal. Green/ground goes to the sometimes green terminal that is off by itself usually at the bottom of the receptacle. The neutral goes to the silver terminal.
How do you wire a two wire fixture to a three wire outlet?
The National Electrical Code allows this change only if you upgrade the whole circuit. BUT ..If you are using this outlet only when the light is on, connect the black wires together and the white wires together. Ground wires together to the box also. IF THIS IS WITHIN 6 FEET OF A WATER SOURCE, IN A BASEMENT, GARAGE, OR OUTSIDE IT HAS TO BE GFI PROTECTED!!!!
How do you wire light fixture with three wires when there are two house wires?
CAN'T. Must have 3-wire w/ground. [First off, I want to admit that the wording of this answer is skewed. However, if you read the answer you will understand why. It is techinically correct in terms of the NEC. -TJNII] The idiot that wired my house did this. To add insult to injury he connected the hot to one circuit and the neutral to another. I was almost electrocuted because of it. Do it right or don't do it at all. Your negligence may kill someone.
Which is the Hot wire and which is the Neutral wire if the wires you see are a Brown a Blue and a Yellow Green wire?
Brown = Hot Blue = Neutral Yellow/Green = Ground
How do you install a light fixture that has two brown wires and a ground?
So long as you conect the ground/earth to the green wire/earth You can conect the other two wires any way around you like.
How do you connect the colors blue brown pink black purple orange yellowgreen?
to collect all these colours put them all in a bowl and mix them. Blue and orange are complimentary colors. They make brown.
How to wire a plug with blue brown and Black?
Test the wire with a meter to determine which wire is your hot, which is your neutral, and which is your ground. Those colors are indicative of a 240v circuit normally, so you may have two hots and a ground. Other wise Hot=Black, Neutral=White, and Ground=Green for placement. On your plug, Black/Hot goes to the brass colored terminal. Green/ground goes to the sometimes green terminal that is off by itself usually at the bottom of the receptacle. The neutral goes to the silver terminal.
How do you wire a two wire fixture to a three wire outlet?
The National Electrical Code allows this change only if you upgrade the whole circuit. BUT ..If you are using this outlet only when the light is on, connect the black wires together and the white wires together. Ground wires together to the box also. IF THIS IS WITHIN 6 FEET OF A WATER SOURCE, IN A BASEMENT, GARAGE, OR OUTSIDE IT HAS TO BE GFI PROTECTED!!!!
How do you wire light fixture with three wires when there are two house wires?
CAN'T. Must have 3-wire w/ground. [First off, I want to admit that the wording of this answer is skewed. However, if you read the answer you will understand why. It is techinically correct in terms of the NEC. -TJNII] The idiot that wired my house did this. To add insult to injury he connected the hot to one circuit and the neutral to another. I was almost electrocuted because of it. Do it right or don't do it at all. Your negligence may kill someone.
What are standard wire colors for 277 volts?
Brown - phase A Orange - phase B Yellow - phase C Gray - Neutral Green or Green/Yellow - Ground
Which colour wire is live in UK wiring?
In a flexible cable, the brown is the "line" voltage and blue is "neutral", often tied to ground at the mains panel. In fixed cables, i.e., "behind the walls", the UK wiring standard changed in 2004, where it now MATCHES the flexible cable: brown is line, blue is neutral. Prior to that, blue, red or yellow were acceptable LINE conductor colors and black was neutral.
What are the neutral colors?
The Neutral Colors are white,brown,grey and black.
What colour are the phase neutral and earth cores flexible cords?
Flexible cord colours are, White for neutral and Green for ground.AnswerIt depends on the standards used in your country. The above answer refers to North America. In Europe, the colours are brown for the line (not 'phase'!) conductor, blue for the neutral conductor, and green/yellow stripe for the earth (ground) conductor. For European three-phase systems, the lines are coloured brown, black, and grey.
When ground beef is brown and not cooked is it good?
Ground beef that is brown and not cooked is not good for you to eat.
WHAT DO NEUTRAL WIRES LOOK LIKE?
In the UK, the colours were once black = neutral, red = live, and green = earth. The modern standard colours are now blue = neutral (note the l in blue for left contact in the three pin plug used in the UK), brown = live (note the r in brown for right contact), and green and yellow stripes = earth In the US, black= hot wire, white= neutral, green or bare= ground (or earth) red= a second hot wire
