Re: British Line and Netural Conventions?


"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One thing to note: white wires can be hot - eg the drop to a switch from
a
light fixture.

That's for electricians benefit to run a single NM (Romex) from the
light to the switch. They are stuck with one white wire for a hot. Safe
practice is to hook the white in the switch leg to the incoming hot from
the branch circuit (in the fixture) so when somebody sees a black and
white connected together, they'll stop and think (What the $%@&#! is
going on?). If you are pulling wire into conduit, white (gray) is for
neutral only.

Code now outside of N America may require you to sleeve the wrong color wire
to the correct color, i.e. black to red.




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