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  #3258023 10-Jul-2024 09:50
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sir1963:

 

AS/NZS 3100:2022 would disagree

 

 

 

 

It appears to specifically cover this situation:

 

"The single colour green shall not be used to identify any live conductor except where

 

(i) the conductor forms portion of the complex wiring of equipment..." 

 

... but I do agree that it's bad practice.





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  #3258024 10-Jul-2024 09:54
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DonH:

 

sir1963:

 

AS/NZS 3100:2022 would disagree

 

 

 

 

It appears to specifically cover this situation:

 

"The single colour green shall not be used to identify any live conductor except where

 

(i) the conductor forms portion of the complex wiring of equipment..." 

 

... but I do agree that it's bad practice.

 

 

 

 

THAT I would take to mean use of multicore cables.

 

This situation is NOT complex, its very very basic.


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  #3258044 10-Jul-2024 10:41
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"Hello! Can I help you find"

 

^ That is the greeting given by one of those chatbots that pops up in the corner of a site even though you never asked for one. You'd think it could ask a complete sentence.


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  #3258070 10-Jul-2024 11:21
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sir1963:

 

THAT I would take to mean use of multicore cables.

 

This situation is NOT complex, its very very basic.

 

 

 

 

Better still, pulling the wiring loom apart to trace the wires, they are both soldered (with heat shrink) to a red wire within the loom.


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  #3258088 10-Jul-2024 12:24
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allan:

 

msukiwi:

 

This is the power pole removed near here today. (I told them 2 years ago that it was not good, and was told "The lines will hold it up!")

 

...

 

 

My parents property in New Plymouth managed to get fibre trenched to the house, in an otherwise aerial only install area, because the pole immediately outside thier property had a "Do Not Climb" notice on it because of its condition.

 

 

Speaking of New Plymouth...

 

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/521704/new-plymouth-council-has-no-plan-to-change-swimwear-rules-after-call-for-g-string-bikini-ban-at-pools 





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  #3258268 10-Jul-2024 23:08
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Little-known fact, the Paris olympics have added a new sport which anyone can take part in.  It's called "see if you can guess which sport the official olympics pictograms represent".

 

 

And before you say "well that one's kayaking!", what about the other one that seems to involve spearing kayaks with an oar?  And I'm a bit worried about the one that hints at shooting horses, or the cyclist road accident, or the people in sunglasses about to be decapitated by an airplane propeller.

 

And those are actually the legitimate pictograms.

 

Edited to add: The brains trust informs me that some of the ones I couldn't identify are "space origami" and "competitive flower arranging" (bottom row) and "sunglasses trivial pursuit" (second row).  Apparently there's also "Morris dancing", "fried egg throwing", "full contact BBQ", and "cluedo".  Beats my guess of "sportsball, sportsball, sportsball, sportsball, sportsball, sportsball, athletics, athletics, athletics".


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  #3258287 11-Jul-2024 07:53
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Second row, sixth icon. I see what it is now, but my first thought was "assassin's hood".

 


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  #3258290 11-Jul-2024 08:03
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Pac-man or Hungry Hippos?





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  #3258379 11-Jul-2024 10:40
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Behodar:

 

Second row, sixth icon. I see what it is now, but my first thought was "assassin's hood".

 

 

 

Some sort of martial art





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kiwifidget:

 

 

Pac-man or Hungry Hippos?

 

 

Equestrian, but there is another one that seem to involve a horse, a firearm, and pair of trainers.  Is it youth hunting?





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  #3258390 11-Jul-2024 11:35
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Equestrian, but there is another one that seem to involve a horse, a firearm, and pair of trainers.  Is it youth hunting?


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  #3258485 11-Jul-2024 15:27
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kiwifidget:

 

 

Pac-man or Hungry Hippos?

 

 

That's a Kanisa(?) figure which creates the illusion of an edge without there being one, so there's an illusory square there created by the Pac-man horses heads.

 

I'm sure the designer got a bonus point for that one.


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  #3258488 11-Jul-2024 15:29
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MikeAqua: Equestrian, but there is another one that seem to involve a horse, a firearm, and pair of trainers.  Is it youth hunting?

 

After the horsing around in the previous two images has been completed they need to get some glue to fix up all the broken bikes, so...


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  #3258514 11-Jul-2024 17:27
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I'm not sure how many people are going to appreciate this one, but...

 

You'd think that companies in Japan would be able to print Japanese to some sort of standard. I imported a movie made by Studio Ghibli, スタジオジブリ. The delivery slip lists it as ストシ” オシ” フ” リ with gaps in the middle of the words. It just boggles my mind.


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  #3258517 11-Jul-2024 17:51
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Flatulence competition

 





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