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Power supply Question

Posted by watlooazn 
Power supply Question
December 05, 2015 03:01PM
Noob here, My power supply has green, black, and white wires. Which one is which? (Im assuming black is hot, white neutral, green ground) can anyone please confirm? I don't have access to a multimeter so yeah
Re: Power supply Question
December 05, 2015 08:08PM
If your talking about the wires that go from the power supply to the wall, yes that is the standard. The wiring convention is black is hot, white is neutral, and green is ground. In the EU brown is hot, blue is neutral and green with a yellow stripe is ground, the yellow stripe thing is fairly common in the US too.

Here's a useful refference: [en.wikipedia.org]

My power supply isn't grounded, and is not polarized (IE you can plug it into the wall in any direction), so apparently it doesn't matter all that much.
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