Beats getting a hoodie for Christmas!
(Don't ask me how I know)
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.
Okay this is far from dull, those are fucking amazing
I'd say they're dull in a good way! I don't want my electrical work to be exciting, that tends to end poorly.
Fair enough!
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.
Wago connectors are great…wish someone had got me some!
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.
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.
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:
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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?
I generally see the old style called Marrettes. It's a brand name that was the only supplier in Canada for a long time.
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
Sweet stockin’ stuffah’! Now you can you the rest of your electrical tape on the Wiffle Ball bat
Great gift!
Snag som GelBoxes as well, then you can use them for stuff outside as well
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).
Ooo, good to know, thanks! I am indeed on 120v, but I'm only doing lighting fixtures right now, so I'm not too worried about the increased resistance. I'll make sure not to use it on touchier circuits.
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.
And you got the expensive ones that are openable yaaay
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?
Because I've had them slip out of twist caps before, especially on ceiling fans with three wires going into one cap. I just don't trust em, y'know?
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.
