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    Posted: 26 January 2018 at 4:18pm
Just replacing all our old Arctic with nice ho7, is there a “industry standard” colour labelling for different lengths

Edited by nuclearbass - 26 January 2018 at 4:19pm
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Resistor code.

1 = Brown
2 = Red
3 = Orange
4 = Yellow
5 = Green
6 = Blue
7 = Purple
8 = Gray
9 = White
10 = Black

You can use coloured tape for power cables, coloured straps and such

XLR, jack etc. have colored bushings for that purpose :

http://www.neutrik.com/en/xlr/xlr-cable-connector-accessories/xxr

http://www.neutrik.com/en/xlr/xlr-cable-connector-accessories/bsx



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Prolight (I think) sell the coloured tape with lengths printed on it. Easiest way.
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Might be Showtec - Someone like that. LeMark will also do it I imagine.
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Companies around here (including myself) do it as resistor colour code x2.

So

Brown = <=2m
Red = 4m (or 5m)
Orange = 6m
Yellow = 8m
Green = 10m
Blue = 12m
Violet = 14/15m
Grey = 16m
White = 20m

It deviates a bit from the colour codes towards the end!

30m = White+Green

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Multiple colours on the same cable are best avoided imho. If you have a lot of freelancers putting a laminated crib sheet in the lids of your cable trucks helps a lot. 

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I do mine with a label printer. my name and length of cable on the lablel then clear heat shrink sleeve over the top.
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I actually number some of my signal looms with resistor colour codes! Confuses anyone else I get to help on gigs!
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I have marked my own cables with:

2m / 20m red
5m / 50m green
10m brown

This is based on the international standard electronics colour code, as used for resistors etc, and the fact that a 10x difference in length is obvious.

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Sadly there seems to be no standard or co-ordination amongst hire companies, everybody just invents their own.

For example, RG Jones uses:

 5m green
 8m grey
10m red
15m yellow
20m blue
30m white


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