Wago Propaganda

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kwired said:
For situations with more than three conductors - particularly 14 and 12 AWG general lighting/receptacle uses, I do prefer the multiport devices over twist on devices, but will often use them with two and three conductors as well.

Do not reuse a twist on when your wire combination is smaller than the original use - connector likely been stretched by previous use and won't hold as well as a new one will.

I have little problem reusing a twist on if putting same conductors back into it that it started with, say you are temporarily opening a connection for troubleshooting.
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I am with you on your thinking. I use Wago’s and wire-nuts to me it’s not a either/or issue, they both have good value and uses. I can use either on making up a switch box, but with the Wago I can do it a lot faster.


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I think that what they are claiming is more or less true. Most of my work is industrial and I can't tell you how many times I've seen a screw on wire nut that has come loose from vibration. I don't see a whole lot of wire nuts because most places ban them because of this problem.

Where you have to have a wire to wire connection most times I see ring tongue terminals bolted together. And then taped over. That's a lot of work. The wago connectors make a lot of sense instead of doing The ring terminal route.
 
James L said:
Y'know, I've always wondered why stuff always loosens with vibration. Why doesn't it ever tighten?
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Pressure in the wrong direction to make it get tighter.

That why you sometimes see left hand threads on something that turns clockwise (while facing it) Pressure probably won't tighten it much more but won't be in the right direction to make it loosen either.
 
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