<html><head></head><body>I am finding that lots of stuff from China does not adhere to any known color code standards and there is often no manual. If there is the language is so poor it confusing at best hazardous at worrst.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 14, 2015 8:39:42 AM PST, Joe Golden via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">RTFM?<br /><br />Joe Golden<br />Stage-Tech<br />951-264-8401<br />Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<br /><br />On February 14, 2015 5:13:12 AM PST, Dan Sheehan via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">just thought I'd share:<br /><br />240 V power is commonly black and red for the two hot legs<br />(white is reserved for neutral)<br /><br />Baseboard heater presents two wires: red and black.<br /><br />Mount-in-unit thermostat for same,<br />made by the same mfg and purchased in the same ubiquitous store,<br />has two pairs of red & black wires.<br /><br />So, connect one red/black pair to the red/black L1-L2 source,<br />other red/black pair to the heater red/black, right ?<br /><br />- - - -<br /><br />No, WRONG !<br />That configuration is what circuit breakers are for!<br /><br
/>T-stat uses 2 reds for line, 2 blacks for load.<br />Not marked on the unit.<br /><br />( I checked after (my bad!) installing first of two units,<br /> before attempting to apply power)<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><hr /><br />For list information see <<a href="http://stagecraft.theprices.net">http://stagecraft.theprices.net</a>/><br />Stagecraft mailing list<br />Stagecraft@theatrical.net<br /><a href="http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net">http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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