Unusual flex colours

[Doomed]

Client wanted the flex for thier monitor routed up through tier desk, so I made a small hole for the flex and chopped the molded plug off to replace with a new one after treading the flex through the hole.
Then I look at the flex cable colours, cpc is purple, live is black and nuetral is white. Also the neutral is the only cable with a copper stranded core, the cpc and live are some dull silver metal.
Hmm, I think, not having this, off I goes and gets another flex (I have loads of 'kettle lead' flexs knocking about) and uses this one instead.
Never seen that colour scheme before, anyone got any ideas where it came from? The moulded plug had BS1363 stamped on it.

 

[roukel01]

The US use black as live and white as neutral, however, the Purple cpc is a mystery!

 

[poppypiesdad]

or could it be a Chinese what have we got left........
who will ever cut the plug off.....................

Jamie

 

[StokieSpark]

Could you be colour blind?

 

[pennywise]

Or maybe to denote a possible 25v down the cpc from the equipment.

 

[Johno]

just a warning (from experience), cutting off a moulded plug voids any guarantee

 

[wattsup]

I did a pat test on a rock bands music stuff, one amp was wired to a 13a plug top with strange colours. So I failed do not use sticker, noted it, and they don't like me anymore. Oh well, am I supposed to check what conductor did what...they make the rules and I get slagged off for being fussy?

Don't suppose they will call me next year

 

[UNG]

just a warning (from experience), cutting off a moulded plug voids any guarantee

I think I would have argued that one assuming the connections were correct and the new plug top was not what caused the fault / failure

I did a pat test on a rock bands music stuff, one amp was wired to a 13a plug top with strange colours. So I failed do not use sticker, noted it, and they don't like me anymore. Oh well, am I supposed to check what conductor did what...they make the rules and I get slagged off for being fussy?

Don't suppose they will call me next year

So if a plug top gets damaged and the colours are non harmonised then the item is scrap!!! in your book
I'm not surprised they won't call you

A lot of imported industrial equipment would never get connected if all the colours had to comply with the euro colour scheme

 

[chris gray]

i was led to believe that due to the fact its not part of the fixed wiring installation the colours arent an issue?