Black red and blue are used for 208 vac three phase.
Blue and white wire which is positive.
When you re hanging a chandelier or any other ceiling light first find the 3 wires coming out of the hole in the ceiling where the light will go.
Yellow wires are used as switch legs to ceiling fans structural lights and outlets paired with light switches while blue wires are usually used as travelers for three or four way switches.
For a two wire system with a positive ground the positive wire is white and the negative wire is black.
White and gray electrical wires.
White and gray electrical wires.
Then blue wires are most often used as travelers for three or four way switches for instance if you have switches at the top and bottom of a staircase that control the same light that s a three way switch.
Ground ground wiring can be green or green with a yellow stripe.
Lastly there are three wire systems that feature a center tap wire which is colored white.
Positive the wire for the positive current is red.
Very often we find ourselves striping wires cutting wires splicing or simply removing a cigarette lighter plug to then hardwire the wire.
Neutral neutral wiring should be white.
That means it connects to an electrical panel s neutral bus bar.
So first they made it into 64 pairs of two wires each there were other advantages and then using 6 colors and having a second color for the second wire e g.
Brown orange and.
If you find wires in either of these colors you ve located the neutral wires.
White is most.
That wire is your positive.
The colors white and gray indicate a neutral wire.
For a two wire system with a negative ground the positive wire is red and the negative wire is white.
The colors adopted as local practice are shown in table below.
Identify the black positive wire on a ceiling light fixture.
White orange white blue red green they could have a means of identifying each of the 64 pairs of wire.
Take a look at the wire and you will notice a solid dashed or otherwise marked wire.
These are known as high leg connections.
In some uncommon situations one phase will have a higher voltage than the others.
Recognize that the black wire is the positive one the white wire is the negative one and the green wire is the ground.