I tried to google it but it depends on where you land, the brown and the blue cables can be inverted and using the word “polaritet” doesn’t help at all
No. We have AC so polarity is not important. Grounding is though.
i gave the wrong answer due to a miss understanding.
gone leave it up but disregard this comment.
If i remember correctly it’s alternating current so you should be fine with having brown and blue on the outside side and ground (yellow and green) in the middle
Note this one has ground on the outsides but the round pegs is live in this case
I am not a electrician so I recommend checking with one if there is doubt.
And to be honest it doesn’t look like a standard 220 plug right there
(Correction as stated by op it’s a different plug to the normal 220 plug and to be honest I did not know we had a special one for the oven)
In practice it does not matter which way you have your blue and brown, as long as the ground (yellow with green stripe) is kept separate.
A bit of googling shows both blue-brown-ground, and brown-blue-ground. It probably don’t matter much as long as your stove is set up for 1N (single phase).
However; if you want to be certain you can contact a reputable electrician and have them come and connect it for you. It should be a quick job, so will likely not cost too much.
Are you hoping for reruns of The Julekalender this coming juletid?
Short answer: no, polarity doesn’t matter.
Source: am electrician.
The greenyellow needs to switch places with brown! Then it is good!
Usually the socket will have L, N and a Ground symbol printed on it where the cables go. Typically on the outside. Blue = N, Brown = L, Green/Yellow is Ground (already in the right place)
Long and short and every answer is no
Short answer : no.
Long(er) answer : As long as you are dealing with single phase, it does not matter which color you use on the different phases. But the ground does matter, and that one is the longer one to the right. The standard in Norway is to use brown as L1 and blue as N.
Also, if you made the connection on that plug, good work! Looks really nice!
Source: I’m a electrician
Dressing up as Captain Obvious, I’d like to add that you’re in violation of code if you mess with that kind of plug without proper accreditation in Norway. Your insurance co. would take offense if something happens to the electrical systems where you live
If your stove starts cooling things off you just need to unplug the socket, turn it over and replug it. Then it should start heating things again👍
Easy fix, just put your finger across the three connection while you plug it in.
/s ^(just in case)
Reading the comments here makes me understand why you are not allowed to mess with simple tasks like this yourself.
**First, the connections in the picture looks fine, job well done.**
But many of the comments bellow are just wrong.
We have different electrical systems in Norway. Most used are IT and TN, what you have depends on where you live. It can be a mixture in the same street. All new installations tend to be TN.
The IT grid is something found only in Norway and Albania, and consists of two live wires and no neutral, in this configuration it really does not matter if you flip around blue and brown, but since equiptment can be moved you need to use the right colors.
However on TN it does matter. Brown is live, Blue is Neutral.
Doing it wrong might work, might not work, might be dangerous.
Thats why some equiptment (like an electric vehicle) will fail to work when pluged into the wall, but if you flip it around it does work. The reason is that it expect 0 volts between the blue neutral wire and Protective earth (yellow/green), and connected the wrong way it gets 230V between ground and “neutral”.
This is why industrial plugs may only be inserted one way (even single phase).
Only thing that really maters is ground. Hell, if your power grid is IT and not TN-S you really don’t need to care as you wouldn’t even have live and neutral, you’d have phase 1 and phase 2.
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I tried to google it but it depends on where you land, the brown and the blue cables can be inverted and using the word “polaritet” doesn’t help at all
No. We have AC so polarity is not important. Grounding is though.
i gave the wrong answer due to a miss understanding.
gone leave it up but disregard this comment.
If i remember correctly it’s alternating current so you should be fine with having brown and blue on the outside side and ground (yellow and green) in the middle
[ example image ](https://elbil.no/content/uploads/2016/03/blogg-20160311-schuko_360-575×767.jpg)
Note this one has ground on the outsides but the round pegs is live in this case
I am not a electrician so I recommend checking with one if there is doubt.
And to be honest it doesn’t look like a standard 220 plug right there
(Correction as stated by op it’s a different plug to the normal 220 plug and to be honest I did not know we had a special one for the oven)
In practice it does not matter which way you have your blue and brown, as long as the ground (yellow with green stripe) is kept separate.
A bit of googling shows both blue-brown-ground, and brown-blue-ground. It probably don’t matter much as long as your stove is set up for 1N (single phase).
However; if you want to be certain you can contact a reputable electrician and have them come and connect it for you. It should be a quick job, so will likely not cost too much.
Are you hoping for reruns of The Julekalender this coming juletid?
Short answer: no, polarity doesn’t matter.
Source: am electrician.
The greenyellow needs to switch places with brown! Then it is good!
Usually the socket will have L, N and a Ground symbol printed on it where the cables go. Typically on the outside. Blue = N, Brown = L, Green/Yellow is Ground (already in the right place)
Long and short and every answer is no
Short answer : no.
Long(er) answer : As long as you are dealing with single phase, it does not matter which color you use on the different phases. But the ground does matter, and that one is the longer one to the right. The standard in Norway is to use brown as L1 and blue as N.
Also, if you made the connection on that plug, good work! Looks really nice!
Source: I’m a electrician
Dressing up as Captain Obvious, I’d like to add that you’re in violation of code if you mess with that kind of plug without proper accreditation in Norway. Your insurance co. would take offense if something happens to the electrical systems where you live
If your stove starts cooling things off you just need to unplug the socket, turn it over and replug it. Then it should start heating things again👍
Easy fix, just put your finger across the three connection while you plug it in.
/s ^(just in case)
Reading the comments here makes me understand why you are not allowed to mess with simple tasks like this yourself.
**First, the connections in the picture looks fine, job well done.**
But many of the comments bellow are just wrong.
We have different electrical systems in Norway. Most used are IT and TN, what you have depends on where you live. It can be a mixture in the same street. All new installations tend to be TN.
The IT grid is something found only in Norway and Albania, and consists of two live wires and no neutral, in this configuration it really does not matter if you flip around blue and brown, but since equiptment can be moved you need to use the right colors.
However on TN it does matter. Brown is live, Blue is Neutral.
Doing it wrong might work, might not work, might be dangerous.
Thats why some equiptment (like an electric vehicle) will fail to work when pluged into the wall, but if you flip it around it does work. The reason is that it expect 0 volts between the blue neutral wire and Protective earth (yellow/green), and connected the wrong way it gets 230V between ground and “neutral”.
This is why industrial plugs may only be inserted one way (even single phase).
Only thing that really maters is ground. Hell, if your power grid is IT and not TN-S you really don’t need to care as you wouldn’t even have live and neutral, you’d have phase 1 and phase 2.
Either way it really doesn’t matter.