From: "Gareth Jelley" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Blue-Ushas; Green-Urth -- Problems
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:46:30 -0000

> > Re: "No, no, NO, GREEN is Urth", I thought I'd add this on (from the
joke
> > angle), though it's not much of a joke unless you're an engineer. In
> various
> > types of power cords, there tend to be three wires of different colors.
> The
> > colors mean different things, depending on what kind of wiring it is,
but
> as
> > far as I know there is almost always a green, and it corresponds to:
> > "Earth". (the others being "line", and "neutral")


I thought the brown wire was the 'earth' wire... But I'm not an
electrician...

Best,

G.


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