Purple is also sometimes used for switched lines here. In some areas it's the norm for one phase of a 277/480V system, either by local code or convention (277/480V is most often either brown/orange/yellow or brown/purple/yellow).
Sort of like some of the comments over here about Chicago with it's "everything must be in conduit" rule.
For sure. Britain should have just told them: "We have a perfectly good system and we're not changing it."
Red & black have been the traditional colors of leads on test meters pretty much since red & black became the accepted general colors for d.c. positive & negative. They're not really related to mains wiring colors specifically; it just so happens that the British colors were the same.
I'm assuming that's for mains-specific meters such as loop testers? I can't imagine general-purpose test meters ever moving away from red & black, at least not in the English-speaking world (I did have a couple of Russian multimeters years ago which came with black & white test leads, so I assume that was their standard, at least in the U.S.S.R. days when the meters were made).Ahh makes sense. A few companies have moved to brown and blue to make it easy
Yea more MFTs than 'Multimeters'I'm assuming that's for mains-specific meters such as loop testers? I can't imagine general-purpose test meters ever moving away from red & black, at least not in the English-speaking world (I did have a couple of Russian multimeters years ago which came with black & white test leads, so I assume that was their standard, at least in the U.S.S.R. days when the meters were made).Ahh makes sense. A few companies have moved to brown and blue to make it easy
What is your understanding of why the change was made?
It doesn't work like that, nor should it.
I obviously can't know, but if messages have been removed, I would presume that was probably because of the language used, not, per se, because they were challenging/questioning opinions.
