I had one of our lads connect one end of a 185 3½c PVC SWA to a new MCC.
Red → Brown
Yellow → Gray
Blue → Blue
Black → Black
He then asked why the neutral was fused. He hadn’t even noticed that his “blue phase” was half the size of the “neutral”.
I'd been at the other end of the cable jointing it to a 185 3½c PILC SWA while this was going on. The joint finished I’d gone to test at the end Albert had done. I think everyone on the works heard me shouting.
Thank god Albert retired, he was a bloody liability. This was just one in a long line of cock ups he made.
I’ll never understand why we changed to the harmonised colours.
On our single phase street lighting system, the old colours (red, yellow, blue) are used as Phase, Neutral, Phase, respectively, and not taped up mind you either. When any jointing is done, the new colours brown, black, grey, are also used in the same sequence and not taped up either!
Now when I got put on the jointing jobs, I would use the brown core as a phase, tape up the black with blue tape (neutral) and tape up the grey core with brown tape (phase).
Still following??
So a meeting on site with the inspector last week, and the dude was in meltdown at what I had done. He simply couldn't understand what was going on. I was like look, we work to the 17th now, it's simples...untaped brown is a phase..blue taped up core is neutral, other taped up brown is the other 'phase'. Nope, he still couldn't get it.
He wanted me to put red, yellow, and blue tape tags on what I had done. The thing looked like a rainbow!
