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When ever there is a potential difference between it and ground.
Kayley Johns
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∙ 9y agoTypically the blue wire is the neutral wire, not the live wire although it still carrys the same current as the live wire, just back to the plug.
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What is the color of live wire neutral wire and ground wire in Bangladesh.?
In Bangladesh the color of live is green and neutral is blue and ground is black.
What are the UK wiring colours?
The brown wire is live (Mr Brown is a live wire!)Blue is the neutral wire for the return current. Green/yellow is the earth wire.
What are the three wires in a plug called?
The green and yellow is the earth wire The brown is the live wire The blue is the neutral wire A poem to help is: The brown live cow drinks from the blue neutral water and eats the green grass from earth
How do you wire a UK socket?
The following applies to the UK Blue wire goes to neutral Brown wire to live Yellow/Green stripe wire to earth
Is a brown electrical wire live?
If you don't know different for sure, then you must treat ANY electrical wire as if it's live, regardless of what color it may be.
What are the names of the three wires in a plug?
Live Wire = usually brown, if not then its grey or black. Neutral Wire = Blue Earth Wire = green and yellow striped
Where do you connect the blue wire on the tachometer for the bulb?
The blue wire is usually just an auxiliary wire. The blue wire does not need to be connected. Tape the end of the blue wire off.
What is the brown wire on my house wiring?
If you live in Europe, then the brown wire is the line ('hot') conductor; a blue wire is the neutral conductor, and a yellow/green striped wire is the protective (earth) conductor.
What is the blue wire for in a three pin plug?
In the UK Brown is the live, blue is the neutral and green/yellow is the earth. The live and neutral are the two wires that normally carry the current.
What is the blue wire Is it live?
it depends on where the blue wire is in a circuit, but if your question is can you get shocked from it? well if it is a house wiring circuit the answer is probably yes, you can use a volt meter to check, but red, black, blue, brown, sometimes white, can be a wire that can shock you, really any color wire except green or bare copper can shock you.
Which is the Hot wire and which is the Ground wire if the wires you see are a Brown and a Blue wire?
Brown = live (hot) - (equivalent to Red wire) Blue = neutral - (equivalent to the Black wire) Yellow and green = earth. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- However never rely on the wire colors - you should test the wires with a meter to be sure that the person before you has not made a mistake further back in the wiring.
What colour code used for 3 pin electric plug?
The earth wire, striped green and yellow, is connected to the terminal marked E; this should be the longest of the three wires so that it is the last to become detached if the cable is strained.The live wire (brown) is connected to the terminal marked L.The neutral wire (blue) is connected to the terminal marked N.
