What is the blue wire on an electric motor?

Blue wires are usually used as travelers for three- or four-way switches, while yellow wires are used as switch legs for ceiling fans, structural lights, and outlets.

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What is red wire and black wire?
Both wires have the same characteristics. Red wires are used for lines and positive terminal voltage points for easy trouble shooting. Black wires are used for terminal voltages.
What color wire is ground in cars?
The green is usually ground. White returns to the ground. The ground wire in the car is usually black and the positive wire is usually red. Any color of wiring can be used for electrical components and accessories.
What is red wire in switch?
The red electrical wire shows the secondary live wires in a 220-volt circuit, used in some types of switch legs and in the connection between smoke detectors that are hard-wired into the power system. There are two ways to connect a red wire to a black wire.
Where does the blue wire go on a fan?
The hot wire that turns the fan blades is the black wire from the ceiling fan. The fan circuit is complete with the neutral wire. The ceiling fan light fixture has a blue wire. There is no ground wire in the ceiling fan motor.
What are blue and brown electrical wires?
Our black, white and green stripe wiring is less common than the brown, blue and green stripe wiring. You want to connect the brown wire to the black wire. It will go to white if the blue is negative or return. The green ground will lead to the building green.
Is blue wire a load or line?
The internal relay has two wires connected to it. Is that correct? Taking the black wire plus one blue wire and wire-nut them both to the black "line" wire from the breaker panel is the most common method of wiring the RF124. The white wire should be used to wire the load.

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What is the blue wire on an electric motor?

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What is red wire and black wire?

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Where does the blue wire go on a fan?

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Is blue wire a load or line?