Brown, blue, and green-yellow should be used as wiring colors for extensions or repairs to existing single-phase installations. If both older red/black and newer brown/blue colors are present, interfaces must be clearly marked and a warning notice posted at the distribution board. New three-phase installations should use brown, black, grey for phases and blue for neutral, with green-yellow protective conductors.
Brown, blue, and green-yellow should be used as wiring colors for extensions or repairs to existing single-phase installations. If both older red/black and newer brown/blue colors are present, interfaces must be clearly marked and a warning notice posted at the distribution board. New three-phase installations should use brown, black, grey for phases and blue for neutral, with green-yellow protective conductors.
Brown, blue, and green-yellow should be used as wiring colors for extensions or repairs to existing single-phase installations. If both older red/black and newer brown/blue colors are present, interfaces must be clearly marked and a warning notice posted at the distribution board. New three-phase installations should use brown, black, grey for phases and blue for neutral, with green-yellow protective conductors.
Brown, blue, and green-yellow should be used as wiring colors for extensions or repairs to existing single-phase installations. If both older red/black and newer brown/blue colors are present, interfaces must be clearly marked and a warning notice posted at the distribution board. New three-phase installations should use brown, black, grey for phases and blue for neutral, with green-yellow protective conductors.
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NEW WIRINGCOLOURS
Extensions, alterations or repairs to an existing single-phase installation
An extension, alteration or repair to an existing single-phase installation should be wired in the colours of brown, blue, and green-and-yellow.
Marking requirements - single-phase installation
At the wiring interface(s), providing
the existing cables are correctly identified by the colours of red for phase conductor and black for neutral conductor, and, the new cables are correctly identified by the colours of brown for phase conductor and blue for neutral conductor,
New
Existing
Existing
CAUTION This installation has wiring colours to two versions of BS 7671. Great care should be taken before undertaking extension, alteration or repair that all conductors are correctly identified.
then the extension, alteration or repair can be considered to be unambiguously marked and further marking at the interface is not necessary. (Regulation 514-01-03 refers).
At the distribution board/consumer unit
Addition
If an extension, alteration or repair is made to an installation such that both brown & blue and red & black cables are present, a warning notice must be affixed at or near the appropriate distribution board or consumer unit. (Regulation 514-14-01 refers).
E L N L
E N
CAUTION This installation has wiring colours to two versions of BS 7671. Great care should be taken before undertaking extension, alteration or repair that all conductors are correctly identified.
THREE-PHASE INSTALLATIONS The traditional colours of red, yellow and blue for the phase conductors and black for the neutral conductor are replaced by the colours of brown, black and grey for the phase conductors and blue for the neutral conductor. (Regulations 514-03-01 and 514-04-01 refer). Protective conductors remain green-and-yellow. (Regulation 514-04-02 refers).
New three-phase installations
The circuits of a new installation should be wired in the colours of brown, black and grey for the phase conductors and blue for the neutral conductor. The protective conductors remain green-and-yellow.
