New cable colouring

[stricko]

Can I use coloured brown sleeving on blue/brown switch cables or do I have to obtain brown/brown cable?

 

[DurhamSparky]

sleeving is acceptable, so is tape and so is not bothering!!

glad your in habbit of sleeving it!!

 

[trev]

Yes you can sleeve. NB the other end also has to be sleeved

 

[trev]

Not marking switched lives is acceptable???? Since when Durham (Or am I not getting a joke here?)

 

[DurhamSparky]

highly acceptable as when the customer changes the fitting !! bang , bang , bang..... !!! instant call outs!!

i see it every day nearly so i just "assumed" it must have been passed into the regs via the back door...!! lol...

 

[trev]

Ah yes how stupid of me, sorry mate

 

[Adam W]

Maybe the tape had fallen off.

 

[stricko]

Thanks all, so sleeving is ok and so is coloured tape....thanks,

 

[trev]

Twin brown makes life a little easier but it's no real hardship to sleeve

 

[telectrix]

have a bit of fun, sleeve it green/yellow. NOT!

 

[Fin170]

Or better yet, have the feed to the switch

No sleeving
Easier testing
And when the customer decides to fit their 'Spekial brand' B&Q plates you'll get yourself a call out :wink5:

 

[telectrix]

only problem with double grown is you son't know which is L and which is S/L, so you could end up with L to L1 and S/L to common in the switch.

edit: brown.

 

[Rockingit]

That's my issue with using B/B too; at least when you've got a marked neutral then you know which end is which without getting the tester out.

NB: I read on a thread here a time ago that the 2011 regs now suggest 'considering provision of a neutral at the switch' for electronic switching devices, though have yet to look it up myself.

 

[Knobhead]

OK so this may be a silly/sensible suggestion.
Instead of brown/brown for switch lines, why not alternative colours say brown/orange? Save a lot of confusion.

I did the same years ago on a huge trunking/conduit job. For the lighting I used red, yellow, blue, black and finally orange for the switch wires. Saved no end of testing. Take a switch plate off you could see instantly there was more than one feed.

 

[lauriehurman]

I'm glad it's not just me.
I always want to use red sleeve on switched live.

Laurie