3-Wire Cable Colors
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02-20-15, 01:12 PM
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3-Wire Cable Colors
Hi All, I've just installed a new rolling gate opener and am ready to burn it up
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My wiring from the plug is GREEN, BROWN and RED. The manual shows the connections as E N L, but I can't find a chart that shows my colors for Earth, Neutral and Line. I have seen where Line has been brown, back and red.
The cable was there from my old opener when went kaput.
Anyone have any idea?
Thanks a bunch,
Jim
.My wiring from the plug is GREEN, BROWN and RED. The manual shows the connections as E N L, but I can't find a chart that shows my colors for Earth, Neutral and Line. I have seen where Line has been brown, back and red.
The cable was there from my old opener when went kaput.
Anyone have any idea?
Thanks a bunch,
Jim
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02-20-15, 01:27 PM
Gonna have to help us a little. Model number of opener. Possibly pictures of your wiring. Is it in conduit? Are you using separate wires, rather than underground cable?
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02-20-15, 01:27 PM
Earth, Neutral and Line
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02-20-15, 04:50 PM
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Thanks for all the replies.
Actually, the wiring installed a few years ago by myself and another guy and it was attached to my previous gate opener......Mighty Mule, I think.
The new one is an Aleko AC2000, but I don't think that will help. It has a connection for ENL or Hot, Ground and Neutral, but my question is still the same.
My wires are BROWN, RED, GREEN,
I think GREEN goes to E, BROWN to N and RED to L (or hot). Gonna run a test on it manana with a multimeter to be sure which is the HOT. The green, I hope, is easy to decipher......Earth. So, the other two are in question.
Again, thanks to all of you.
Jim in the Desert of NM
Actually, the wiring installed a few years ago by myself and another guy and it was attached to my previous gate opener......Mighty Mule, I think.
The new one is an Aleko AC2000, but I don't think that will help. It has a connection for ENL or Hot, Ground and Neutral, but my question is still the same.
My wires are BROWN, RED, GREEN,
I think GREEN goes to E, BROWN to N and RED to L (or hot). Gonna run a test on it manana with a multimeter to be sure which is the HOT. The green, I hope, is easy to decipher......Earth. So, the other two are in question.
Again, thanks to all of you.
Jim in the Desert of NM
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02-20-15, 05:17 PM
it was attached to my previous gate opener......Mighty Mule, I think.
Here is the power info on a Mighty Mule slide gate opener. As you can see it is not compatible with your new opener.
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02-20-15, 06:32 PM
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Of course!! I don't know what I was thinking...........well I wasn't thinking.
That will make it easier, I think.
All I have to do is use a three-wire cable from the existing 120v outlet there on a post. Right?
Thanks for kick-starting my thinking.
Regards, Jim
That will make it easier, I think.
All I have to do is use a three-wire cable from the existing 120v outlet there on a post. Right?
Thanks for kick-starting my thinking
.Regards, Jim
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02-20-15, 06:39 PM
All I have to do is use a three-wire cable from the existing 120v outlet there on a post. Right?
