Stranded Wire and Wire Nuts
- Thread starter physis
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Re: Stranded Wire and Wire Nuts
Who? Me?
charlie
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Re: Stranded Wire and Wire Nuts
Sam, you look like a trouble maker to me. LOL
Anyway, you are welcome.
Sam, you look like a trouble maker to me. LOL
Anyway, you are welcome.
charlie
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- Indianapolis
Re: Stranded Wire and Wire Nuts
when i was active, i assumed that a good wire nut connection could hold any fixture by itself (not chandeliers), and i pulled fairly hard on the wire nuts.
i experimented with hooking the tip of the wire to capture the stranded, but that is harder to do with 12. worked good when i was using some problem brands of wire nuts.
what bothers me about back stab devices is that they rely on a small contact area and spring action. with any load there is some heating and with a continuous cycle of heating and cooling, eventually the temper is lost. i guess it would not be too bad for a single bulb that didn't capture heat, but my experience with backstab devices is that i wished i had never used them. future work i guess.
paul
when i was active, i assumed that a good wire nut connection could hold any fixture by itself (not chandeliers), and i pulled fairly hard on the wire nuts.
i experimented with hooking the tip of the wire to capture the stranded, but that is harder to do with 12. worked good when i was using some problem brands of wire nuts.
what bothers me about back stab devices is that they rely on a small contact area and spring action. with any load there is some heating and with a continuous cycle of heating and cooling, eventually the temper is lost. i guess it would not be too bad for a single bulb that didn't capture heat, but my experience with backstab devices is that i wished i had never used them. future work i guess.
paul
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- Windsor, CO NEC: 2023
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- Hospital Master Electrician
Re: Stranded Wire and Wire Nuts
So, the folks who use these things actually hang lights with them? My boss gave me a handful to try out, and after a couple of boxes I tossed them because half of what I touch (lights) require attaching to stranded wire. One more thing to carry around with marginal use...
And they give me the willys.
So, the folks who use these things actually hang lights with them? My boss gave me a handful to try out, and after a couple of boxes I tossed them because half of what I touch (lights) require attaching to stranded wire. One more thing to carry around with marginal use...
And they give me the willys.
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