Re: Wiring colour codes

[bomb squad expert]

Hi

> I'm moving my home office and phone from one room to another, and have > bought a wall socket, and an extension lead from Homebase. The wall socket > has 4 terminals marked blue with white stripe, white with blue stripe, > orange with white stripe, and white with orange stripe. > The extension has 4 wires, red, blue, green and white. > Can someone tell me which colours go where?

Always cut the RED wire BEFORE the black one!

[Graham.]

NO Create some audience suspense by appearing to comply with the given instructions, then at the last minute snip them in the opposite order. Always worked in "Danger UXB"

[Lino expert]

Psst, wanna buy a digital stopwatch with big red numbers?....

[John]

Try this: (Compiled by Peter Parry)

[The Medway Handyman]

[Dave Plowman (News)]

This might also be of use if you come across old BT wiring - but won't probably help with some shed bought flexible extension cables.

*************************************************************************** Here are the standard colours of cable, flex and their terminals.

Old Terminal Current Cord Function Cable Cable

1 Green/white Orange Spare Blue 2 Blue/white Red B wire (Line) -50v Brown 3 Orange/white Blue Shunt wire. (Bell) Green 4 White/orange Green Local earth (Not usually used) Orange 5 White/blue White A wire (Line) 0v 6 White/green Black Spare

[John]