UK Have I missed something? (Colours)

[littlespark]

Was in YESSS this morning and noticed they had drums and drums of PINK sleeving. 4mm, same as their brown, blue and g/y.

I thought maybe someone had ordered the wrong colour into stock, but the lad said it was right.

Is it used on DC cables from PV to identify pos and neg??

 

[westward10]

Positive would be red.

 

[littlespark]

Positive would be red.

Of course it is… so why so much pink sleeving?

 

[DefyG]

I thought Pink superseded Cream for functional earthing?

 

[littlespark]

Maybe old red sleeving left in the sun too long?

I really don’t know.

 

[Amp David]

AMD 2 functional earths are to be pink

 

[littlespark]

Right… ok. Something I did miss when I did my AMD2.

 

[westward10]

Pink sleeve for functional earths, going to sell like hot cakes.

 

[brianmoooore]

Apart from Green/yellow, has anyone ever used up a 100m coil of this stuff?

 

[littlespark]

If you were second fixing a whole development of new houses… you might get through a brown…. But at half an inch a go, it might take a while

 

[Rockingit]

Apart from Green/yellow, has anyone ever used up a 100m coil of this stuff?

I’ve got a (now clump of..) blue that must be at least 20 years old!

 

[westward10]

I've not got much red but I have a lot of black I still occasionally use.

 

[brianmoooore]

Plenty of red, but no black at all. On the rare occasions I need some, I use a bit of heatshrink instead.

 

[R-fur]

Positive would be red.

The DC colours changed at the same time as the AC colours.
They are now Brown for +ve and Grey for -ve unless a pole is connected to earth when it should be Blue.
So a 12v -ve earthed system would be brown for +ve and Blue for -ve
or a 48v +ve earthed system would be Blue for +ve and Grey for -ve

 

[Simon47]

Apart from Green/yellow, has anyone ever used up a 100m coil of this stuff?

No. Plus, anyone got any creative ideas for blue sleeving that's too small for even 1mm cores. The local CEF had a load in and confused "1mm" with "fits 1mm".

The DC colours changed at the same time as the AC colours.
They are now Brown for +ve and Grey for -ve unless a pole is connected to earth when it should be Blue.
So a 12v -ve earthed system would be brown for +ve and Blue for -ve
or a 48v +ve earthed system would be Blue for +ve and Grey for --ve

I think it's changed back to red & black in the latest update. I was a bit surprised when I saw it.

 

[Jock from the north]

No. Plus, anyone got any creative ideas for blue sleeving that's too small for even 1mm cores. The local CEF had a load in and confused "1mm" with "fits 1mm".

I think it's changed back to red & black in the latest update. I was a bit surprised when I saw it.

Pink rcbos? The leads are described as functional earths