Well, it's more insidious than that C... I looked at that chart when I was triaging the unit. I can only offer in my defense that I must have seen what I expected to see. I have no doubt that I'm not the first poor sod that has happened to, either.
So now I'm going back to basics, and going to wire the thing correctly with a new cord. Then all that mess will be fixed proper; even if it is IEC colour-coded for you scone-eaters instead of North America, at least it will be colour-coded correctly.
First thing I did was cut the end off that defective cable, so it never gets used for anything except a source of raw wire.
mnem
I don't get this. Why is it so important to know where phase and neutral are in a single-phase outlet? IMNSHO it's much easier to always assume both are lethal. To think otherwise just opens for bad idea bingo season, like the All-American 5 and its guitar amp cousins.
It's not just being anal. It's aboot doing it right, and
not making a booby-trap for the next guy that has to work on it.
Work with the assumption that your work will outlive you, or worse yet, that you'll need to work on it again. At least in NA, there are conventions we follow because not all electrical widgets have a grounded cord; we wire everything the same way with respect to Neutral vs Line as our plugs are polarized with an extra-wide Neutral prong & slot to act as if there was an actual GND as applicable. Neutral connects to Earth GND at the same bus in the breaker box, and is supposed to remain a single unbroken conductor all the way to the load; it is never switched.
Line (or Hot) is where you always put a switch. On things with sockets like lamp fixtures and the fuse holder seen above, Line or Hot always goes to the center pin so that it is hardest for a person to make contact with it and contact area is minimized, while Neutral always goes to the outer ring so it is at Earth potential. That way if little Johnny sticks his dick in it, the circuit path is across an inch or so of skin instead of through his chest and feet to Ground.
Color coding is, as we've been discussing, an international clusterfuck. But there are still conventions for safety's sake; these are there, and part of the electrical code, so we don't create booby-traps for others by layering poor wiring practice on top of other poor wiring practice, and so that when it does happen, the color-coding helps make it obvious.
Of course, you always want to be a one-handed electrician so as to not be the path to ground, you always want to work as if the line you're working with is live and at dangerous potential, and you always want to double-check with a meter. Those things are a given.
But there is still no excuse for not doing it right. Or at least what is considered "right" at the time
(and place) you do the work.
mnem