Re: apologies to the group, and an electrical question

"David McCall" <mccallmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <0junk4me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>
>> On 2008-06-20 rcrowley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 said:
>>   >For whatever politically-incorrect reason, most 
electricians
>>   >are likely male, and red/green colorblindness is one of the
>>   >most common types in men.
>> HEy, a place where blind man's techniques are superior!!!
>> THough I"m color blind I work around it.
>> WIth dc connections I tie a knot in whatever wire is the
>> positive.
>>
>> GUess I"ll be thinking about a way to mark camlocks so that
>> even the color blind can't screw it up.
>> sUggestions anyone?  I don't want to change standards from
>> what is standard use here in the U.s. for wire colors, but
>> would like to have a dummy proof.
>> sUggestions welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard webb,
>> replace anything before at with elspider
>>
> Note that I am not suggesting any of the below.
> They are just observations.
> 
> Some places have taken to reversing the genders of the
> common (white) cable. I don't remember, but they might be
> reversing the ground connectors as well. That makes those
> connections look different from  the "hot leads.


I've never seen the neutral reversed, but I've always seen the 
ground reversed.




-- 
}:-)       Christopher Jahn
{:-(       http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/

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