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".

[TheShaner]

Awesome, thanks for the replies. I will dig in tomorrow and report back on the findings.

[TheShaner]

Also, I'm in the states. When I cut off the plug of the blekin smart powerstrip, if you stuck wires that resulted into the sockets they were intended for on the wall, it was (looking at the wall socket, green left black right, white down.  

Not sure if that clarifies anything or not

[MonMotha]

Wait, so now you have a green wire, not a red one?

Green on the "big" blade, black on the "small" blade, and white on the "round" contact would work, if normal color coding was used, but it's wrong.  That flips ground and neutral.

You're going to have to measure things all the way back to the outlets on the strip to figure this out, I think.  No guarantees that they used normal wire colors based on what you've provided.

[TheShaner]

Sorry about the confusion.  I must have been drunk when I wrote out the color schema on the wires.  It is actually green black white.  Here is exactly what I have and how I have it wired currently (which isnt working.)'

[TheShaner]

So I think I have it figured out, and I am surprised I havent blown myself up.  I will wait for confirmation from someone on the board who truly knows what they are talking about, but Here is what I am thinking:

Black - Hot - Connected to P on the diagram (left most)
White - Neutral - Connected to N on the diagram (Right Most)
Green- Ground - Connected to E on the diagram (Center)

Can someone verify or disprove this?

[Vigo]

Black - Hot - Connected to P on the diagram (left most)
White - Neutral - Connected to N on the diagram (Right Most)
Green- Ground - Connected to E on the diagram (Center)

That sounds accurate to me.

[TheShaner]

That did it, I have power.  Thanks for the help.