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Re: [Amps] what is a 4 wire 240VAC service?

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Subject: Re: [Amps] what is a 4 wire 240VAC service?
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: dezrat1242@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:42:57 -0700
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:27:37 -0700 (PDT), Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>(2) What bright spark decided that black was a good colour choice for the hot 
>wire?

REPLY:

Sounds logical to me. Think of the Black Death.  :-)

A better question is why black is used for ground in the electronics
world. Isn't ground brown?

73, Bill W6WRT
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