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Wiring a powerstrip to a female receptical
TheShaner:
Am I missing something here?
I grabbed a belkin smart strip, then got a heavy duty receptical to wire it to so I could plug it in the wall.
I wired it up, with the red wire to the P, the black to the N, and the white to the ground. I have cut and resoldered 3 times, and just cannot seem to get any power through it. I went ahead and wired it to a small rinky dinky female to just see and nothing. I am assuming that on the diagram the load is the equipment pulling the electricity and the line is the wall. So I dont think I could have things backwards
Here is the other one I tried.
This one almost looks backwards to me though because of the coloring. I wired it the same though. Has anyone wired something like this before? Looking from the back, Positive left, Negative right?
TheShaner:
It's hard to believe with all of the electrical guys out there noone has an opinion!
DaOld Man:
I think the blue is neutral and the brown is hot in that second photo.
Are you in the states? 120 volts? Or Europe with 220 volts?
If yo have a multimeter, ohm out the ground on your smart strip to each wire, to see which color is the ground.
PL1:
Green/blue/brown is a european colour scheme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring_in_the_United_Kingdom#Wiring_colours
To make sure you're wiring it right, connect the power cord to the socket shown, but don't plug it in. Use the Ohms setting on your multimeter to test for continuity and no shorts to other wires.
The neutral blade (normally white wire for U.S.) is wider than the live blade (normally black wire for U.S.) and the ground (normally green wire for U.S.) is round.
The other possibility is that the outlet you tried to plug it into is controlled by a light switch. (I know it's reaching, but I've seen it happen before.)
If you have an outlet tester, it wouldn't hurt to verify that the outlet has power and is wired properly.
Scott
MonMotha:
So, you got a smart strip, hacked the wall plug off of it, an you were greeted by 3 wires: black, white, and red? That's not what I would have expected...
I'm guessing the red wire is earth ground. This is totally, 100% not standard, but I've started seeing it on some random chinese stuff (somebody recently posted a picture of a monitor on here with a red wire clearly hooked up to the frame as the earth ground).
The earth ground should always been connected straight through. Got a meter? Check for continuity from the red wire to the "3rd prong" on the outlets on your strip to verify.
If indeed red is ground (wtf), then black is probably hot (P - the manufacturer was probably thinking "phase"), white is neutral (standard color in the US), and red is, well, ground.
BTW, household AC doesn't have "positive" and "negative". It has "hot" and "neutral".