Telecommunications wiring color codes. Telecommunications technical information color code chart 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 8 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 s3 5 g y s3 6 r y s3 7 bl y s3 8 r y s3 2 r bk s3 1 g bk s3 14 s3 13 bl y s3 4 s3 3 bl bk s3 9 s3 10 bl y r y s3 11 bl y s3 12 r y u 25 w br u 25 w bl u 25 r s u 25 r br u 25 w g u 25 w o u 25 r g u 25 r o u 25 r bl u 25 w s u 25 bk o u 25 bl bk s 4 r y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 s 5 g bk s 15 g y s 1 g y s 3 bl y s 10 r bk s 23 bl y s 24 r y s 25. Major color minor color 1. In the new color code for electrical wires brown is used for live or line blue is used for neutral conductor and green for earth. Within building b a.
The neutral is white the hot live or active single phase wires are black and red in the case of a second active. A color code or colour code is a system for displaying information by using different colors. Canadian wiring is governed by the cec canadian electric code. Three phase lines are red black and blue.
25 pair color code pair no. The united kingdom adopted a color code scheme for such communication wherein red signified danger and white signified safety with other colors having similar assignments of meaning. The protective ground is green or green with yellow stripe. Beyond that are general industry accepted rules about wire color that indicate their purpose.
The 25 pair color code is the foundation. Lets presume i have two buildings a and b. Non military applications3 military applications. Look at the table below the color code starts with a base color or wire color the first on the list is white and second color blue is in the form of a strip on the wire.
Om2 50125 multimode 50125 850 nm laser optimized om3 om4 aqua undefined om3 or om4 850 lo 50 125. But looking deeper the color of the wires inside of the sheathing reveals that different colored wires serve different purposes. The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags as in semaphore communication. As chemistry and other technologies advanced it became expedient to use coloration as a signa.
Video shows the actual wires and a chart. Suggested print nomenclature multimode 50125 om2 orange orange. The initial five colors are blue orange green brown and slate aka. A 100 pair cable connects the two buildings.
Those five colors are expanded by. By reading these two colors the base and the strip you can determine which wire pair out of the group of 25 wire pairs you have.