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Conductor identification - what would you do

jbrameld
You are replacing some old-fasioned light fittings (that look like inverted 1970s pub ashtrays screwed to the ceilings) with shiny new LED dome fittings.  The house is wired in T&E with red and black cores and you find that the switched line feed is coming into the existing fitting as a black core in a T&E.  Mostly you have found that these have been nicely oversleeved in red, but one or two aren't.


Would you :


a: Oversleeve/mark in red to be consistent with the existing wiring

b: Oversleeve/mark in brown as that is the common 'current' colour for a single phase line conductors

c: Leave it as black as that is an allowed 'phase' colour these days......!

d: Something else - if so what?


Jason.
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    Harry Macdonald:

    Maybe, now we have left the EU, we can revert to Black and Red as permissable colours.

     


    That would leave 16 years of chaos. We will still be in the EU as a trading partner, not as a Union member, and will still need to buy and sell electronic/ electrical appliances with leads attached to the EU as well as others. AFAIS, Blue now appears to be the standard colour of neutral or negative throughout the developed countries. (I'm sure that there are still many counties that use black or whatever as neutral)


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    Harry Macdonald:

    Maybe, now we have left the EU, we can revert to Black and Red as permissable colours.

     


    That would leave 16 years of chaos. We will still be in the EU as a trading partner, not as a Union member, and will still need to buy and sell electronic/ electrical appliances with leads attached to the EU as well as others. AFAIS, Blue now appears to be the standard colour of neutral or negative throughout the developed countries. (I'm sure that there are still many counties that use black or whatever as neutral)


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