Whats your wiring method?

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I'll pigtail when the budget allows. ;) I never use the "push in" terminals though. The screw terminals make a solid connections so I don't see the need to pigtail other than to save time on the finish.
 
JONATHAN20 said:
Its good because it saves time but if the recpt goes bad you lose the circuit.
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You do? What am I missing here... as long as the tab is intact, why would you lose the circuit? :-?

I don't pigtail until getting to 3+ wires. Any more than that and it's unwieldy to get it back into the box.

Otherwise I back-wire, but pressure plate only. Ixnae on the ackbabstae!
 
I always pig-tail. Although it would mean another service call, I don't want anything I install to fail for any reason, ever. The only exceptions to pig-tailing for me is: Wires are too short and box is small. In this case, I use a backwire receptacle.

Mark
 
It's interesting that only a few of the posts expain why to do one or the other. There's some talk about failures and doing it where necessary, but when do you think it's necessary (or when is it simply the local custom) I can accept doing pigtails because everyone else does and it's expected, but that's a bit like saying I drive a Ford because everyone else drives one.
 
the in-sures work the same way. They are pretty tough though. Once you push 'em in it takes kliens and a set of 440's to get the wire free again.
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Heh heh. That's why I don't like em. Seems like I am always going back to redo something.
 
zbang said:
It's interesting that only a few of the posts expain why to do one or the other. There's some talk about failures and doing it where necessary, but when do you think it's necessary (or when is it simply the local custom) I can accept doing pigtails because everyone else does and it's expected, but that's a bit like saying I drive a Ford because everyone else drives one.
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...maybe you've driven a Ford your whole life, your father drove Ford, and his father before him. You're comfortable with it, and don't see a benefit to spending a great deal of time investigating other options.
 
With all the serious posts I thought I would throw in one on the lighter side. Many years ago I had a new hire that did not use any of the fancy ways you guys have described.

I was foreman supervising the electrical on a large residential community. This guy was assigned to my crew claiming he had all kinds of experience. As usual with these types he had all brand new tools, so I just rolled my eyes and assigned him a house to switch and plug (something easy till I could properly educate him). I came back to check on him at lunch to find that he had the whole house switched and plugged and half the fixtures up. I was pleasantly surprised and assumed I had the guy figured wrong. That was until I went to hot check the house and nothing worked. The first receptacle I pulled out did not have anything connected to it. He just screwed all the devices and fixtures in without ever connecting any of the conductors.

Ah if it were only that easy.
 
JohnConnolly said:
Heh heh. That's why I don't like em. Seems like I am always going back to redo something.
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Yeah I hear ya man.:grin: They could be a real pita if you needed to go back and troubleshoot or add on to something.

It's been a few years since I've used them. I still prefer the wire nut/cap/scotchlock/whathaveyou....:grin:
 
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