PINK WIRE

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domnic

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On a test for my masters 15 years ago their was a question and the answer was pink wire i can,t think of the question help.
 
The question wasn't from the NEC since the word pink does not exist in that document.
 
infinity said:
True or False:

A pink or purple conductors be used as an ungrounded conductor?
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OP said the answer to the question was pink wire, the answer to that question is either true or false.


This must be Jeopardy, he gives the answer we have to give the question.:)
 
Following on from PetrosA's post about difficult to identify colours....
You'all may know that we Brits had to change three phase colours from the primary red, yellow, blue to brown, black, grey with blue as neutral.
Madness, insanity. Three primary colours immediately identifiable to most people changed for dull colours that could easily confused in poor light. Beyond idiotic.

But pink wire was the topic so back to that.
There is only one occasion where we have had to use it.
We made a heater control panel - industrial process related for the defence industry so I can't say too much about it.
Back to back SCRs. Bit of PLC control.

As is normal on our projects, we had to do a FAT, factory acceptance test, in our works.
One of the stipulations in the specifications was that any temporary links required for the FAT had to be pink. Of course, we had none so it had be specially ordered.
There was some method to this madness. The unusual colour made temporary links immediately obvious.

A little excursion off-topic - mods be kind......please. Some might find the following diatribe slightly amusing.

The project had reams and reams and reams of specifications. And that doesn't include copies of standards referenced in them. The customer's engineer staggered into my office loaded down with a box of them. It was a box that would normally hold copy paper - 5,000 sheets of it. It had more taped to the outside - then he went back to his car for another..........

I'd never seen anything like it and haven't since. The detail was at absurd levels.
As an example, there was an entire section on how to write manuals, the font type and size that must be used, correct grammar, including a whole page on the correct use of the humble comma.
My thoughts at the time were who pays* for people to produce such....um....... verbiage. They, the British MOD, have come to us, a British company, because we are a professional organisation and they expect to be supplied equipment of a high professional standard and because we have a track record supplying to them in the past - and yet they think they need to teach us how to write correct English?
But what gave me a wry smile is that their own documentation didn't come close to meeting their own standards.

*As for who pays for this nonsense? Me and the millions of other tax payers like me. It would make you cry into your beer...........

As for the pink wire, well it would have taken me six months or maybe until my ultimate demise, whichever came first, to find it buried in that mound of ........stuff.
 
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