Color coding for inputs, outputs, pots etc...

[JEPorter]

Is there any sort of semi "official" color coding for the wiring of jacks, pots, switches etc.
I know it's kinda a goofy question but I would like to participate and eventfully post some stuff and help anybody out when I can and would like to be as clear as possible
This site is a tremendous resource.
Thanks all,
Jeffrey

[nbabmf]

I always use red wires for +9v and black for -9v/ground connections, usually white for signal in/out, and green for pots... but that's just what I have.

[rosssurf]

I have wondered about the same thing. However, I also use red for 9v, brown or black for ground and white for in and out. I have never really used any color in particular for the pots.

[Processaurus]

Red for power, black for ground is the only standard I know of, curious if there is an official color code for other electronics?

I randomly started using blue for in, yellow for out, including pots: yellow for the wiper, blue for the CW lug, black for the CCW, because it is ground on a volume knob...  I never got people that wire their pedals with one color of wire, seems like it would make debugging twice as annoying.

[compuwade]

I couldn't tell you for sure, but I've disassembled tons of electronics and the only standard I've ever seen is RED for + and BLACK for -...and on the AC side of things, WHITE for common BLACK for hot and GREEN for earth. Everything else I've seen or read have been standard only by the manufacture that's made the circuits.

[Skruffyhound]

     Without really thinking too much about it I started using a colour code system of my own, V+ Red, Gnd Black, Pot lug 1 Yellow,2 Green, 3 Blue (yellow and blue make green, easy to remember) Signal input/output orange, small switches grey, jumpers on boards and multi-pole switches purple, white/brown/grey also used for filling any gaps in the colour scheme when wiring 9 pole and rotary switches i.e. many of those poles on a stomp switch will be covered by my conventions above but if there is anything else it gets one of the three remaining colours.
      It all makes life alot easier IMHO

[kurtlives]

I use yellow for my plate wires

[rosssurf]

I tend to use "Dusty Rose" for lug 1, "Fawn beige" for lug 2, and a "Summer Avocado" for the LED! Oh! and occasionally a "spiced Pumpkin for the 3pdt....but that's just me

[Skruffyhound]

"Dusty Rose" for lug 1, "Fawn beige" for lug 2, and a "Summer Avocado"

Ooh! Pastel colours, sounds gorgeous!

[sean k]

I slightly misinterprted the question and immediately thought of having coloured dots on the outside of the enclosure to define things and that seems like a good idea.

When I set up I don't usually have much time and sometimes I do a electro sound mash with lots of enclosures so a system to denote ins and outs and also colour coding level, speed, feedback, etc ( that pots that I twiddle most often) would be a good idea.

Tamiya models do an enamel pen in a range of colours so I'm now going to mark my ins and returns with orange and use white for level, blue for speed and yellow for feedbacks. I like this idea. I'll even go so far as to mark the rotation parts of a pot that are most likely to be useful.

[DiscoVlad]

previously it was whatever i had on hand, but now:

Red for V+
Black for V-
White for 0V if it's split supply, or red (pos gnd) black (neg gnd)

Green for effect input (green = clean signal)
Brown for effect output (brown = dirty signal)

any remaining colours (blue/grey/orange/yellow/purple) for pots/switches