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<blockquote data-quote="Richard-the-Ninth" data-source="post: 521599" data-attributes="member: 23472"><p>Are you sure?</p><p></p><p>Blue, Brown, green/yellow came into being in appliance flex in 1969, whilst cables did not fully change until 2006 (Introduced 2004)</p><p>The only thing I could find is why the colours we have were chosen.</p><p></p><p>There are 11 colours available, red was used as a protective conductor in Germany and Austria, yellow was used as a protective conductor in Italy and green was used in the UK. Orange is not available because it is either too near yellow or too near red, purple is not available because it is too near red or blue and turquoise is not available because it is too near blue. Pink is not available because it is too near red.</p><p></p><p>No mention of colour blindness, sorry<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard-the-Ninth, post: 521599, member: 23472"] Are you sure? Blue, Brown, green/yellow came into being in appliance flex in 1969, whilst cables did not fully change until 2006 (Introduced 2004) The only thing I could find is why the colours we have were chosen. There are 11 colours available, red was used as a protective conductor in Germany and Austria, yellow was used as a protective conductor in Italy and green was used in the UK. Orange is not available because it is either too near yellow or too near red, purple is not available because it is too near red or blue and turquoise is not available because it is too near blue. Pink is not available because it is too near red. No mention of colour blindness, sorry🙂 [/QUOTE]
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