Colorblind electricians???

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cowboyjwc

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My son is red/green colorblind. It took us awhile to figure it out especially once he learned to read. He gets his browns and greens mixed up. So he would say something like "Did you see that brown car?" and I would be looking all over the place for it. He knew that grass was green and dirt was brown and he can even see some shades of green, but once we did the test it was obvious.

The eye doctor told him, without knowing what I do, that he could never be an electrician.
 
Rampage_Rick

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That might explain why my supplier was trying to sell me one of these today:
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At least Greenlee is helping us cope...
 
Rampage_Rick

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I would have bought it, but the boss might not think kindly seeing this on the ticket:

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[B]MANUFACTURER      PRODUCT DESCRIPTION                 PRODUCT CODE    PRICE[/B]
GREENLEE TEXTRON  975313C OPENER,BOTTLE CUSHION GRIP  GRE975313C      $7.80 / U

I asked if they could change the description, or sell me a screwdriver and then re-hash their inventory... No love.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to go back to using my eye socket :cool:


cowboyjwc said:
The eye doctor told him, without knowing what I do, that he could never be an electrician.
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Well my doctor said I wouldn't have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger out of there...
 
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POWER_PIG

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I was helping an electrician with a service call, he asked me to cut short lenghts of black / white / green. No problem I say, be right back. I returned with the wires in hand and he just looked at me oddly and asked " you ain't got no white?" I stood there looking like a 2 day newbie ( in his eyes) "I got white right here ya moron" I responded. Well, short story shorter.....I took my shades off ( blue blockers) and sure nuff, yellow it was. I was like LOL.....trying to explain to the man why I made such a rookie mistake and I swear he still thinks Im color blind to this day. Just so ya know, blue blockers make blue black, and yellow white, So leave em in your tackle box and save yourself some woes!
 
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sguinn

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mpross said:
Are there any manufacturers of that actually state the obvious on the wire, by telling what color it is. They print so much other info on it that it couldn't be that much more expensive to print the actual color on the wire... and they could market the fact that there would be less confusion. I would buy it for my projects.

-Matt
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I'm surprised that manufacturers don't include and abbreviation for the color on wire, I guess that the infrastructure is already in place and it would cost millions to change it now.:grin:
 
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HighWirey

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"I'm surprised that manufacturers don't include and abbreviation for the color on wire, I guess that the infrastructure is already in place and it would cost millions to change it now"

I am also surprised. I previously posted that my local small business wire vendor would print anything on any size wire (22awg to 1M MCM) for no cost increase. The big guys just need some $ufficent prompting. It won't cost them anything either, but they have gotten cozey with 'unjust compensation'.

Best Wishes Everyone in 2008
 
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jrclen

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I was trouble shooting circuits on a loading dock. I pulled off the cover of a 5x5 box first thing, and found it stuffed full of grey wires. I thought that was kind of strange. For some reason, I took out my maglight and turned it on. Bingo, all sorts of colors. It was the low pressure sodium lighting making them all appear grey. Darnedest thing I ever saw.
 
480sparky

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If you really want proof, copy the image to just about any graphics program, even Paint or Paintbrush. Clip part of the "B" square and move it up to the "A" square.

You'll see this:

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cowboyjwc

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jrclen said:
I was trouble shooting circuits on a loading dock. I pulled off the cover of a 5x5 box first thing, and found it stuffed full of grey wires. I thought that was kind of strange. For some reason, I took out my maglight and turned it on. Bingo, all sorts of colors. It was the low pressure sodium lighting making them all appear grey. Darnedest thing I ever saw.
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I lost my jacked up 4x4 one time. It was orange and I walked right past the brown one in the parking lot, twice thinking mine had got stolen. Same type of lighting.:cool:
 
ptonsparky

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cowboyjwc said:
I lost my jacked up 4x4 one time. It was orange and I walked right past the brown one in the parking lot, twice thinking mine had got stolen. Same type of lighting.:cool:
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Saw a buddy at a fast food joint one day and took him out to show off my new truck. Dumbfounded when I couldn't find it. I had the keys in my pocket!! I had driven something else that day.
 
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