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Wago’s / conductor preparation

Hi


I find myself using the lever 221 wago’s more and more now mainly for lighting circuits but have a question regarding conductor preparation prior to insertion in the wago once the required amount of insulation is stripped off. A solid conductor seems to just go straight in but do you twist a stranded cable and a flexible cable or put them in untwisted? I can’t find any guidance on the box or on the wago website. What do other users of these great little inventions do with them?


Thanks


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  • mapj1:

    Much better than choc bloc in any application where it may thermally cycle or shake loose - we use them a lot  in vehicle/ genset settings - if you want them tidy ,they make little brackets that can be screwed to the wall of a box or clipped to a DIN rail, but it is rarely necessary.

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    or for the smaller bodied ones order part nr 221-500



    ...Having thought about this a bit more, if spring-loaded lever operated connectors are reliable and don't come loose due to thermal or vibration effects, should they not be integrated into wiring accessories instead of screwed type terminals?  Also, what about MCBs?  No doubt that they would need a more robust version but I could see lever operated terminals being quite convenient and safer! 


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  • mapj1:

    Much better than choc bloc in any application where it may thermally cycle or shake loose - we use them a lot  in vehicle/ genset settings - if you want them tidy ,they make little brackets that can be screwed to the wall of a box or clipped to a DIN rail, but it is rarely necessary.

    picture here



    or for the smaller bodied ones order part nr 221-500



    ...Having thought about this a bit more, if spring-loaded lever operated connectors are reliable and don't come loose due to thermal or vibration effects, should they not be integrated into wiring accessories instead of screwed type terminals?  Also, what about MCBs?  No doubt that they would need a more robust version but I could see lever operated terminals being quite convenient and safer! 


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