Re: apologies to the group, and an electrical question

rigger wrote:
> On Jun 21, 3:36 pm, "Duncan Wood" <bodged...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>I've never seen the neutral reversed, but I've always seen the
>>>>ground reversed.
>>
>>>On the afore-mentioned 800A company switch panel at my home theatre,
>>>all circuits have the dual-neutral and ground Camlock recepticles
>>>reversed.
>>
>>I don't think I've ever seen anyone get phase & earth confused, phase & 

>>neutral though's well known. But that's a UK issue due to blue having
been  
>>a phase colour & black having been neutral.
> 
> 
> 
> Phase and earth are easily confused by some colo(u)rblind people in
> the States, given our colo(u)r coding: green is earth, black, blue,
> and red are hots. In fact, back when he was a theatre dept. student,
> one of the guys who now works for the theatre once ruined a Skirpan
> dimmer rig when he confused the black hot leg with the green ground
> wire and let out all the magic smoke.
> 
> (OTOH we did get a new ETC system out of it, so maybe hono(u)r is
> due...)
> 
> --
> Dave Vick

Dear Brother Rigger,

'Twas ever thus 'twixt Earth and Ground.

Ye Olde Chaser,
Bert, of Lx #22