Okay this is far from dull, those are fucking amazing
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Wago connectors are great…wish someone had got me some!
Wait hold on a minute, this is the Dull men's club.
That ain't dull, that's brilliant.
Either that or I belong here don't I.
See that's the problem. You lost definitely belong.
The WAGO makes the fucking wire nut look medieval. Good deal and whenever I opened a splice in my home, I replaced all the damn wire nuts with WAGOs.
They are the best. Did my entire home installlation using them, it was such a breeze compared to Lüsterklemmen, whatever they are called in English.
The English term for those are wire nuts. They suck but they're great in a pinch
Hm, nah, I meant these:
https://files.catbox.moe/k8mgc0.png
Not great, because if they change temperature a lot or are over torqued they lose pressure after a while.
Those wire nuts look even worse though, do they just screw on top of twisted wire ends to isolate them somewhat?
In Belgium we call these sugar (sucre) as they look like some sugar you'd toss in a coffee
We call these chocolate blocks, and I try and replace as many of them as I can
Hah! My uncle loves those. Picks up a pack whenever he is in Germany and laments that he can't get them anywhere else.
Correct about wire nuts. As far as I know, they're the north American standard. Based on the two options I see here, it looks like they're also the most archaic option lol
I'd call them screw blocks or screw terminals
Yes, that's them. The Marettes as the other answer suggested look even more sketchier, jeez, twisting wires and calling it a day for for up to 32A?
Anyway, I've found over torqued screw blocks in my parents home that lost pressure due to slight plastic deformation of the copper wires over time and that's something you'll never find out until the connector box starts smoking 0_o
I generally see the old style called Marrettes. It's a brand name that was the only supplier in Canada for a long time.
That is proof that you were a very good boy this year! Now it's time to hit the breaker box and rewire those switches.
Score! Those things ain't cheap!
They are much cheaper if you don't get them from the hardware store. Just checked my local store against my latest online order, 2.5x difference in per unit cost.
So now I have a box of them. Still not cheap but they are well worth it, plus they're reusable so in my mind it's never a waste even for a "dumb" project or a temp fix.
Nobody local to me sells wago. I really wonder if they're against state code but nobody can give me a straight answer. Most the time it's old timer sparkys I ask and you can't tell if the wagos are forbidden or if they are just stubborn.
You can get knock-offs, too, but I get only Wago. I get them from Amazon, but compared to wing nuts they're outrageously expensive.
Still worth it, 100%, and getting them as a gift of even better. Like getting Saxx underwear, or Bombas socks. Totally worth it, and even better if it's someone else's money.
You'd love the WAGO booth at the Embedded World Fair. They've got those jars where you can pick some connectors for yourself as a treat.
Sweet stockin’ stuffah’! Now you can you the rest of your electrical tape on the Wiffle Ball bat
And you got the expensive ones that are openable yaaay
Great gift!
Snag som GelBoxes as well, then you can use them for stuff outside as well
Those are awesome. Especially in my camper van build as I experiment with where I want things to end up.
I can see how these are easier to use, but why would you replace existing twist caps?
Marrettes (twist caps) like to break off the ends when you re-connect them. The solid core wire only takes a couple twists before it fatigues and breaks. If you do a new one, or have to strip the wire back because you broke off the last one, I'd definitely change to these. They're much more reliable, don't break the wires and you can see when they're inserted correctly. And when you only have so much length in your wires in the box, you want to preserve what you have so you don't have to open up the wall and lengthen it, and doing so isn't to code anyway if you don't put in a junction box.
I've DIY'ed my own electrical for decades, and I change to these whenever I can now. It's like changing from copper to PEX at any chance for plumbing, superior in every way.
Nice, had to use those this year for the new kitchen hood. The residual-current circuit breaker interrupted my do it myself brilliance a few times before I found out by rtfm how to actually use them...yeah.
Let me guess: You didn't know they can be opened, just rammed the wires into them and called it a day?
Heheh no, I connected blue and brown, then blue, brown and earth wire on the same connector. Finally used one connector for every wire. Idiot...
Ah, the high current RCD test.
Are you on 240V? Wago connectors are not great for 120V due to higher internal resistance than wire nuts (which is why we prefer the latter in NA).
Beats getting a hoodie for Christmas!
(Don't ask me how I know)