[Elecraft] KPA500 fusing and cable-colouring

[Fred Jensen]

On 9/2/2011 1:53 PM, Matt Maguire wrote:
> Actually, in Australia, the official colours are now brown for active
> (phase) and blue for neutral. It used to be red and black many years
> ago, but then they standardised on these new colours for some
> reason.

Fuses are in the KPA500 nifty power receptacle on the back panel.  I run 
my KPA500 on 120VAC and it works just fine.  Admittedly it's on a 
separate circuit, I had a couple of them run into the shack during a 
remodel about 10 years ago, but it runs fine on 120V.

And here in what began as a colonial empire, once electricity had been 
invented, the author of the NEC decreed green for safety ground [earth], 
white for neutral not to be confused with green, black for "hot" [phase, 
active, "the donttouchit wire"] if it's 120 VAC RMS, and red if it's 240 
VAC RMS.  Orange, yellow, violet, gray, and mauve apparently are not 
used anywhere in the world?

73,

Fred K6DGW
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