so i been changing the lights at my house and up until now its been easy, the red for positive, the black for negative/neutral and the green/gold one for earth. 3 from 3 so far, but the 2nd last one has different colours. it has a green/gold (earth again ofcourse), but a blue and brown instead of red /black. I know the blue and brown are an industry standard like red/black but just not sure which is which.

Any help much appreciated as im wirint this post in the dark

Thanks

Hey doing your own wiring sounds illegal.

i think blue is live (positive)

It's only illegal if you burn to death in the horrible pain and the scorching and the gleivan!

baaa humbug, u shouldnt speed, should smoke within 6m of a building, shouldnt tail gate, shouldnt park within 30m of a corner, shouldnt do illegal u turns.

shouldnt do alot of things, but wadda ya do.

Any helpers please.

opps sorry blue = black , brown = red

^ i'd take this well thought out advice!Q

aussie standard red= live black= neutral green = earth
international brown = live blue = neutral green/gold = earth

no you stooge blue and brown indicate that it is a flexible cable multi strands used mainly for extension cords etc but you were correct that blue = neutral and brown = active

light fittings that have blue and brown are usually into 413 plug bases in the roof

shouldnt do alot of things, but wadda ya do.

Umm, not do them? Especially if they put your life, or more importantly the lives of others like most of the things you mentioned, at risk?

He knows he shouldn't do them, but he's going to do them anyways.

Not much else you can do.

thanks for the help people, installed the last two, tested fine.

It doens't really matter which wires are active and neutral the bulbs will work anyway.

illegal wiring = fire = cremation

not a good equation, cob

o he needs a piece of paper to wire light fittings? sif

funny, I always thought black was the earth :/

if you cant spell electricity, i wouldnt be f***ing with it

Brown = active
Blue = Neutral

hope you get booted you f***en dumb c***

Old AC Australian standard :

Active = Red
Neutral = Black
Earth = Green

Current AC Australian standard :

Flex cable:
Active = Brown
Neutral = Blue
Earth = Green/Yellow

Building wiring:
Active = Red
Neutral = Black
Earth = Green/Yellow

caffienebear : black is earth/ground/negative in DC cct wiring. red is usually positive.

cmon its pretty dam simple to wire up some lights. turn of mains power connect the right wires. its not that bad to do

Heh Grimy playing with electricity, that ended well the last time.
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PHWOA wasnt the characters name Frank Grimes ?

his (unwanted) nickname was grimey

wow, amazing i must say. Amazing that a simple f***n question gets the responce of such wankers as most of you. Unfortuntaely the people who actually help are tainted by the rest of u tossers.

I jerked off to this thread, does that make me a wanker?

cct wiring

sorry? :/

Hi claire

Hi Andrew :)

wow, amazing i must say. Amazing that a simple f***n question gets the responce of such wankers as most of you. Unfortuntaely the people who actually help are tainted by the rest of u tossers.

1. hope you own the place
2. hope you don't like insurence
3. hope your never planning on selling.

if soemone dies because of fire and the fault is found to be wireing (doesn't even have to be your fault) your liable.

its a really f***ing stupid idea. but because you don't really care, that makes you an arsehole. and arsehole is alot worse than wanker.

electricity is one of the few things you should take seriously... its like loaded guns ... they kill

illegal wiring = fire = cremation

That was true & amusing. Good one Slaps_forehead.

And Obes post above mine is also correct. Good advice.

email me and I will come round and fix it for a carton. The problem is if you do your own wiring you could make it all work and it may still be wrong. you could kill someone in years to come. if you wire it incorectly you can stuff the polarity up. The switch will still work but when you break a s***ty bulb when you trying to unscrew it and electrcute your wifey or child. that would be a shoking event so i suggest you buy a carton and give it to the closest sparky that lives near you. My work is electricity not typing or spelling.


if you not going to get someone else to do it blue = black

Grimy Reaper

There fixed.

Sounds like hes got it fixed, anyway. Enough with the doomsaying, how about some electrocution stories?

how bout that dude I think it was at wynnum servo station that tryed to break in. He was disabling the security system and electrocuted himself and died, four days later someone went to invistgate a bad "smell". what a shocking event.

caffienebear : black is earth/ground/negative in DC cct wiring. red is usually positive

Demon, what is cct?? :/

circuit :D

It's the DC (direct current) vs AC (alternating current) that is the important bit as far as wire colours go.

Unfortuntaely the people who actually help are tainted by the rest of u tossers.

Maybe the people that actually helped you are trying to get you killed

Hope y'all know what you are doing and stuff, cos sometimes with lights the brown and the blue can both be active, and there is no real way to tell until you gets the fitting off.

cos sometimes with lights the brown and the blue can both be active, and there is no real way to tell until you gets the fitting off.

... er, what?

its called standards, and chances are that you wouldn't be able to tell once you get the fittings off. thats the beaut thing about ac, it works in reverse too :P

Go easy on the man, the only thing separating him from the sparky is a piece of paper and a coin slot.

Go easy on the man, the only thing separating him from the sparky is a piece of paper and a coin slot.

and a basic understanding of electricity.