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Conductor identification - what would you do

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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  • ebee:

    I dont think the colour change from red/black to brown/blue had much to do with being in EU or not


    Sort of agree


    It's CENELEC rather than the EU, and at the moment I'm not sure there are plans for the UK to leave CENELEC.


    Since it's now International (IEC 60445 as well as BS EN 60445), I guess there would be no appetite to change back?


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  • ebee:

    I dont think the colour change from red/black to brown/blue had much to do with being in EU or not


    Sort of agree


    It's CENELEC rather than the EU, and at the moment I'm not sure there are plans for the UK to leave CENELEC.


    Since it's now International (IEC 60445 as well as BS EN 60445), I guess there would be no appetite to change back?


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