Receptacle pigtails

[ryan_618]

Good point. :grin:

Takes a big wire nut.

Would you put tape on it? LOL

 

[charlie b]

No need to be sorry, you?re entitled to be mistaken. . . . It happens the very method I have come up with to comply with those code sections without using a wire nut I also call a pigtail.

And you are entitled to be mistaken with regard to the use of the word "pigtail."

If your other wiring method does not involve an additional piece of wire, if it only strips some insulation away from a half inch or so of the neutral conductor and wraps it around the screw, the word "pigtail" would not apply. How do I know that? Because the tail of the pig sticks out away from its body.

Do you have an official definition of pigtail?

I do. This is from the "McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms":

pigtail [elect] A short, flexible wire, usually stranded or braided, used between a stationary terminal and a terminal having a limited range of motion, as in relay armatures.

A wiring method that puts three wires under a wire cap and runs one to the screw would fit this definition. A wiring method that loops a wire around a screw would not. And you have to believe what that dictionary says, because it is really big and heavy, so it must be right.

 

[LarryFine]

And you have to believe what that dictionary says, because it is really big and heavy, so it must be right.

So that means nobody will ever again doubt anything I say??? Cool! :grin:

 

[iwire]

I do. This is from the "McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms":

Well....what can I say, I am impressed, you do have one.

There it is, I would never make a good attorney because I ask questions that I do not already know the answer of. :grin: