Wiring Colors

[swelebny]

Are there any conventions generally followed when wiring amplifiers in respect to color coding, particularly the sockets?

Steve

[hembrook]

I am using mostly European stuff, as I live in Europe, so for instance, positive wall current over here is blue, negavtive is brown adn the ground wire is green. Therefore I wired the power switch with blue wire. I wired the standby switch with yellow/green striped wire.

However, my transformers have blue for the signal (plate) end and red for the B+ (power) end. I ended up using green wire to connect the PCB to the grid, and black wire for the DC heaters.
I used 4-condictor microphone cable to wire the inputs, so I have red/black and white/green as the Right hot/ground and left hot/ground respectively.

I was up kinda late doing that. It might not make any sense. I dunno if that helped or not.

[Geek]

I follow the EIA codes where I can.

http://www.qsl.net/wa7zcz/area2/page80.html
http://www.qsl.net/wa7zcz/area2/page81.html
http://www.qsl.net/wa7zcz/area2/page82.html

Tubes are:

Plate = blue
Screen = orange
Grid = green
Cathode = yellow
Heaters = brown

[swelebny]

Good stuff. Hopefully when this thing is done it won't look like a complete cob job.

Thanks both!

Steve