Suggest to replace your European power cord (L/N/GND) with a North-American one (L/L/GND).
North-American power outlets don't allow to reverse L and N supply wires of an apparatus to avoid exposing the user to some 120VAC. Guess it's due to some appliances equipped with 2 wire power cords, where N is connected internally to an accessible metallic chassis or parts (old radio/TV receivers with non-isolated power supplies). That's why your electrician doesn't like connecting the facilities L to your device designated N. Alexandru G. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Wire Colors I have a customer that wants to remove the power plug (and IEC 309 style) from our equipment and connect the wires to a power distribution system beneath the computer floor. This distribution system uses an IEC style "din rail" type of barrier strip where one inserts the bare wire into a hole and tightens two screws to affix the wire. My device is rated 200-240V single phase. When the plug is removed you have a blue, brown and green/yellow conductor. The power source is a 208V leg (two phase?) drop with two black wires. The electrician refuses to connect the blue (neutral) wire from the power cord to a black (phase) wire. How can I resolve this. Regardless of whether we are talking blue/brown or black/white, the white and blue are identified as neutral. Because we allow 200-240V single phase this does not preclude the use of 208V phase to phase input. Suggestions/Comments Thanks Rick Busche Evans & Sutherland This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
