Color codes
Color codes
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Any suggestions for standard wiring colors with stripes?
I want the items I work on to be easily identifyable in dim light.
Obviously some base/stripe combinations tend to be hard to see.
I want the items I work on to be easily identifyable in dim light.
Obviously some base/stripe combinations tend to be hard to see.





RE: Color codes
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Also colors that can be confused (gray vs white or orange vs red stripe on dark wires) and just plain hard to see like red strip on blue wire.
Just was hoping that someone else had already done this to help spot differences and combinations that would make me say Duh! after seeing them.
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Perhaps there may be a better system---can't say.
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The code will cover just about everything. Left Speaker +, overhead lamp, etc.
With the number of wires in a car, that gets into some ugly (hard to see) combinations.
SAE has a few standards for things like trailer wiring for trucks.
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You could check out colour blindness, to know which mixtures are likely to be difficult for some people to differentiate. There are for example two different sorts of red detector in the eyes, carried on the X chromosones, so men (X-Y) see reds in one of two different distinct shades [Men colour matching mixtures with pure colours fall into two categories], whereas some women (X-X) have superior colour sensing since they can have both types of red color detectors in their eyes.
Bear in mind many street lights are yellow so some combinations like yellow and white might look much like plain yellow under street lights.
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