Paul,

At least the transition to the new colours in Ireland was less of a shock, if you'll pardon the pun.

The ETCI seems to have set it out as :
Blue - neutral
light brown - live (in single phase installs)

3 phase colour schemes here dropped black quite a while ago so it doesn't cause too much confusion.

The only risk is that some European countries seem to be using blue and black rather than blue and brown. I have no idea why!

the phase assignments here are :

Brown - L1
Black - L2
Grey - L3

and Brown *MUST* be L1.. there's no fuzziness about it.

At least we didn't adopt Green White and Orange (irish tricolour flag colours) for 3-phase [Linked Image]


[This message has been edited by djk (edited 04-21-2006).]