SolentPhill
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My boat is Canadian made for the European Market and yesterday I changed over one of the plug sockets from the 2 pin European with an adapter in to a 3 pin uk socket.
When I took the wires out they were black, White,green, using an electrical screwdriver I found the live is white, so that was the way I wired it up. During a conversation with someone at Marina who asked what job I was doing he said black was live. Today I took one of those plugs with 3 lights to see if it was wired the right way, I found it was, but the last socket i changed was wrong, so i chased the wires from that one and found these wires had a brown so i had obviously wired the brown as live not the white. After a swap round i had 3 lights so that is also wired correctly.
But being ac does it matter? And if anyone else is doing electrical work a £2 screwdriver and a £5 plug in tester from camping shop were invaluable
When I took the wires out they were black, White,green, using an electrical screwdriver I found the live is white, so that was the way I wired it up. During a conversation with someone at Marina who asked what job I was doing he said black was live. Today I took one of those plugs with 3 lights to see if it was wired the right way, I found it was, but the last socket i changed was wrong, so i chased the wires from that one and found these wires had a brown so i had obviously wired the brown as live not the white. After a swap round i had 3 lights so that is also wired correctly.
But being ac does it matter? And if anyone else is doing electrical work a £2 screwdriver and a £5 plug in tester from camping shop were invaluable