I need to put a plug on my TC PoCo Firewire here in the UK (it's a US import).

The mains wires are: black, turquoise and white.

What do this correspond to ?

cheers

BC

Generally, black is negetive, white positive, and green ground or earth. However we use 120V @ 60Hz and I think you guys use 240 @ 50Hz. You need to get a transformer convertor.

It's attached to a switchable power supply so I don't need a transformer.

I guess the "turquoise" must be "green" - the earth.

If I never post here again you know this was wrong

BC

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If I never post here again you know this was wrong

I used to work with an electrician who would lick his fingers and then tap the wires to see if they were live!!

basic channel wrote:

I need to put a plug on my TC PoCo Firewire here in the UK (it's a US import). The mains wires are: black, turquoise and white. What do this correspond to ? cheers BC

green or bare copper is ground
black is hot
white is neutral

-Garret

yuppiegulag wrote:

Quote: If I never post here again you know this was wrong I used to work with an electrician who would lick his fingers and then tap the wires to see if they were live!!

One of my mates is a qualified electrician and he once wired the plug wrong on my cheetah sampler...he used to work in a nuclear power station........

ChumpitO wrote:

Generally, black is negetive, white positive, and green ground or earth. However we use 120V @ 60Hz and I think you guys use 240 @ 50Hz. You need to get a transformer convertor.

I believe it's white neutral and black hot... the ground/earth is green or many times bare.

Doug, who did way more home electrical work than he cared for when he first bought his first house.

the black is hot, and white is neutral. the other way would just reverse polarity.

yuppiegulag wrote:

I used to work with an electrician who would lick his fingers and then tap the wires to see if they were live!!

used to key words here

Works fine, still alive....

black, white dont matter, with 110 / 220 power, unless your wiring your entire studio from scratch. the power is going to work either way. the only thing to worry about is the phase of the power being switched, but since its soundcard/interface, i don't know that its important at all.

if the card needed 480, however and he hooked one of the leads up backwards, the card would take the noise from his computer and record it on the speakers.


oh, its done and done, well congrats you had nothing to worry about.