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brown wires and cables|What do brown wires and cables mean?

Brown wire and cable

Brown may be zero wire or ground wire. If brown, blue and yellow are the same group, they are ground wire, zero wire and live wire in turn)

Color line in wire and cable

The live line (L) is red, yellow and green (mostly red), the zero line (N) is blue and black (mostly blue), the ground line (E) is yellow and green (none of them), and the brown line may be the zero line, the live line, brown and blue.

What color of brown wire represents

The brown wire represents the live wire. In addition, the live wire can also be represented by red, green and yellow. The color of the zero line and ground wire of the wire is different from that of the live line. The zero line is usually marked with blue and black colors, and the ground wire is generally marked with yellow and green colors. If it is impossible to distinguish the fire zero ground wire from the color of the wire insulation shell, use a multimeter or an electric pen to measure and distinguish the wire type.