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What wire goes where?

Hey can some1 help me, on my lamp i have a White, a Yellow wire with tints of green in it and a black wire. on my cord that i am going to plug in is a Blue, brown and a yellow wire

Answer:

US wiring uses black as hot, white as neutral, and green or yellow/green as ground. European (IEC) wiring uses brown as hot, blue as neutral and green/yellow as ground. Your connections would be black to brown, white to blue, and yellow/green to yellow. Don
Run a continunity check on the cord from the brown and blue wires to the blades on the plug. The brown should go to the wider blade, but could be other way around. Then the yellow wires go together. The one (brown or blue) from the wider blade goes to the black one from the lamp. The other one goes to the white wire.

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