On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:03 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> > I suppose in some circles that bleached red could be called brown. But > blue has never been ground on this side of the pond. Which is odd, in > electrical wireing, black is hot, white is neutral/ground, a static > ground is green. Inside a radio, black is ground. Yes, that is how it works in the US. But they did other things differently in the US too. Like using inches and yards to measure distance. At about 60+ I might be the youngest to remember US units like feet used in engineering work. When I was in school they still had us do a few of the problems in US units. They stopped using that soon after and from the 80s all work was metric. There might be a cultural reason for using blue for ground. My wife sometimes slips up and in English calls the "GO" light in a traffic signal "Blue" even though the color is green worldwide. Her first two languages, when she grew up were Japanese and Chinese. In English Green, Ground and Go all start with "G", so I'd guess that is why we used green. But that coincidence only works in English. Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
