I have posted a piece here which is also on the TT topic, but is more general and I think a new thread would be better. Your voice is heard. See below.
Andy, you have the wrong idea there. Onsite crimping is not "dubious" in any way, with the possible exception of being carried out by untrained monkeys. It is widely used in ALL bigger installations, one does not clamp 630 mm2 conductors under a screw, or even put them in some form of terminal, they bolt on with a crimped lug. Tails cables are an oddity in 100A supply installations, really the terminations are rather poor as we sometimes witness, and studs and crimped lugs would be a much better design. That is simply what I am trying to do in a way which does not need redesign of all the components of a CU.
Andy, you have the wrong idea there. Onsite crimping is not "dubious" in any way, with the possible exception of being carried out by untrained monkeys. It is widely used in ALL bigger installations, one does not clamp 630 mm2 conductors under a screw, or even put them in some form of terminal, they bolt on with a crimped lug. Tails cables are an oddity in 100A supply installations, really the terminations are rather poor as we sometimes witness, and studs and crimped lugs would be a much better design. That is simply what I am trying to do in a way which does not need redesign of all the components of a CU.
