Why oh why

[GMES]

Why oh why someone please explain it to me!!!!!!!!!



Found this on a site yesterday, Obviously the work of a Pro!!

 

[rapparee]

Considering there was a period where old colours could be used up I don't see a problem with it

it should have been one or the other, ffs buy a roll of black to match the red, you can use the left over black on a three phase circuit in the new colours.

 

[trev]

it should have been one or the other, ffs buy a roll of black to match the red, you can use the left over black on a three phase circuit in the new colours.

And if the wholesalers had sold out of black singles?

 

[davesparks]

Considering there was a period where old colours could be used up I don't see a problem with it

The regs at the time stated that you could use either colour scheme, but you weren't allowed to mix them up. ie red live & black neutral OR brown live & blue neutral but NOT red live & blue neutral or brown live & black neutral.
Imagine the trouble if people had used brown, black, grey, black for a 3ph circuit!

 

[trev]

The regs at the time stated that you could use either colour scheme, but you weren't allowed to mix them up.

I stand corrected

 

[rapparee]

And if the wholesalers had sold out of black singles?

you drive round to the next one, i get the feeling you might have done this before, we're you in the RAF before? because mixing colours on same circuit is rough as fu...........

 

[trev]

you drive round to the next one, i get the feeling you might have done this before, we're you in the RAF before? because mixing colours on same circuit is rough as fu...........

Have you seen any of my work pal? Several people on here have so don't throw accusations like that around because it annoys people.
Fyi, no I haven't done this nor would I have ever even considered it

 

[davesparks]

you drive round to the next one, i get the feeling you might have done this before, we're you in the RAF before? because mixing colours on same circuit is rough as fu...........

Read it again, he said he could see no problem with it, not that he had or would do it himself.
Unfortunately there is often a vast difference between what is technically ok by the rules and what any decent tradesman would do.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Not sure what being in the RAF has to do with anything?
It's well known that all the colour blind sparks were in the Royal Engineers.

 

[Plonker 3]

you drive round to the next one, i get the feeling you might have done this before, we're you in the RAF before? because mixing colours on same circuit is rough as fu...........

So you would rewire a whole circuit if you needed to alter it if it was wired in the old colours?

 

[rapparee]

Have you seen any of my work pal? Several people on here have so don't throw accusations like that around because it annoys people. Fyi, no I haven't done this nor would I have ever even considered it

well then why were you defending it

 

[GLENNSPARK]

So you would rewire a whole circuit if you needed to alter it if it was wired in the old colours?

put it this way Dill...

if there were no Mixed colour label at the origin of the circuit then the most you could give it was a 3....

 

[rapparee]

So you would rewire a whole circuit if you needed to alter it if it was wired in the old colours?

would you have a red live and a blue neutral at an accessory, persoally i wouldn't rewire whole circuit i'd sleeve the new brown to red to keep it as old colours

 

[trev]

well then why were you defending it

How the hell was I defending it? What I said (wrongly as I've accepted) was that I didn't see a problem with it.
There's such a thing as responding to a post in the interests of sparking a discussion, I seriously don't appreciate the accusation of roughness from someone who has never and probably never will take a look at any of the work I've turned out in the last 35 years

 

[rapparee]

How the hell was I defending it? What I said (wrongly as I've accepted) was that I didn't see a problem with it. There's such a thing as responding to a post in the interests of sparking a discussion, I seriously don't appreciate the accusation of roughness from someone who has never and probably never will take a look at any of the work I've turned out in the last 35 years

fair enough, i meant the practice of mixing colours is rough, i thought you were defending the practice and wrongly assumed you mixed colours, no point in antagonising you any more, your correct i will never see your work, and you'll never see mine, i'm sorry if i riled you

 

[trev]

fair enough, i meant the practice of mixing colours is rough, i thought you were defending the practice and wrongly assumed you mixed colours, no point in antagonising you any more, your correct i will never see your work, and you'll never see mine, i'm sorry if i riled you

Storm in a tea cup mate.