George- The South American countries use the IEC standards as the basis for compliance, so you would want to use the IEC wire colors if you are going to meet the requirements there.
Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: George Waters [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:03 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: POWER CORDS FOR SOUTH AMERICA. I need help on power cords for South America. We are supplying our US customer with product that he mostly uses in the US. He will however be shipping a few hundred to various South American countries. The power cord which we have packed with the units, has an IEC connector on one end, and a US 3 prong plug on the other. The customer plans to cut off the US plug and terminate the wire with appropriate plug to suit the country. The IEC connector is marked 250VAC, and the SVT cable is 300 VAC. That appears to meet all needs. When tried the process here and cut off one of the plugs. That is where we found that the internal wire color code is black/white/green, and not the IEC colors of blue/brown/green-yellow which we thought we had been purchasing. So my question is, do any of the South American countries have requirements on wire colors in free standing power cords? The equipment is not consumer equipment, and will be installed in company equipment rooms so there will be skilled people doing the installation. George --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
