In my submersible pump, there are brown, blue and green/yell...

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Answer by Wireman
Submitted on 1/11/2007
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Typically the brown should be hot, the blue neutral and the green/yellow ground. However, I've had a cord that didn't meet this standard. The best way to determine this is to do a continuity check from the plug end to each of the wires. If you face the plug end imagining your face was the outlet, the spade on the left is the hot, the right is the nuetral and the bottom round post is ground. Now, with your meter set to Ohm's or continuity, touch the left spade of the plug and the brown wire. If you have continuity (meter goes from open to reading ~0.1 - 1 ohm) then you've found your hot wire. Do the same for the remaining wires to ensure your confidence.

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Question by drumag
Submitted on 5/15/2004
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In my submersible pump, there are brown, blue and green/yellow wires - which of this is the hot wire, the neutral and the ground wires?

Answer by astidog
Submitted on 8/21/2004
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these wires seem to relate to the uk wiring system. green/yellow is the earth, brown is the live wire (hot wire to you) and blue is the neutral (on a 3 pin uk plug, green at the top b(l)ue to the left and b(r)own to the right!!!

Answer by Paul Drake Jr.
Submitted on 11/16/2004
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its made to be run on a pump box called a 3 wire pump system

Answer by 1alone
Submitted on 12/7/2004
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In England the three wires we have are coloured brown, blue and green, (or sometimes green and yellow striped). Neutral is the blue wire. The brown wire is usually the 'live' wire, I would assume that is 'hot' and ground or earth as we call it is green/green and yellow.

Answer by finalz
Submitted on 5/12/2005
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live(hot) wire - brown earth - yellow/green twist neutral - blue hope it helps, live should be on the right, earth the middle and neutral on the left if u don't no were to reconnect them at a later time

Answer by movzx
Submitted on 9/3/2005
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Brown is hot, blue is neutral and green/yellow is ground. These are standard wire colors...

Answer by doctor
Submitted on 11/16/2005
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brown --hot blue --neutral green/yellow----ground

Answer by phil
Submitted on 1/28/2006
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nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Answer by meh
Submitted on 2/6/2006
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blue = neutral brown = live yellow/green = earth you could have found this out using a simple google search.

Answer by jsiren
Submitted on 3/9/2006
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This is the European colour code. Brown is live, neutral is blue, blue/green is ground. If in North America, see if the pump is designed to run at 230 V 50 Hz.

Answer by haha
Submitted on 4/20/2006
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green/yellow-hot blue-nuteral brown-ground

Answer by John
Submitted on 4/20/2007
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Yellow/green: Ground (US Green). Blue: Hot Wire (US Black). Brown: Neutral (US White).

Answer by popeye pete
Submitted on 4/22/2007
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brown is hot blue is neutral green\yellow is ground

Answer by Stabbath
Submitted on 6/25/2007
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Brown is the live/hot wire Blue is the neutral wire Green and yellow is the earth/ground wire

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