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Wiska boxes with wagos

Baldyhugh

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I’ve been a fan of wiska boxes for a while now and have been more commonly using the 407’s which come with the 3 lever 221 wagos and a mounting block included. Whilst I find the wagos great for lighting circuits I find the mounting block a bit fiddly and as such tend not to use them, just tucking the wagos neatly into the box once terminated. My question is, do wagos need to be fastened or suppported on some way inside an adaptable box? 
 

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    Soldering is a bit less off-beat, at least it can be un-done non-destructively, but I agree it is not in the average sparky's standard solutions. Those of us who do electronics could probably solder all the cores at a ring end faster than a socket or similar could be fitted, but I do not think anyone would want to.

    I do recall from reading about it, that in some of  the discussion documents that date from  when rings 1st came in in, there was a school of thought that to be safe that the wiring of the ring really should be ensured to be metallically continuous, and clearly to thread up with  an unbroken wire is not possible, so perhaps the soldering was to achieve that unbreakable loop. I don't think the idea survived 1st contact with reality, as the unequal current sharing is not that much of an issue in practice.

    Mike.

     

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    Soldering is a bit less off-beat, at least it can be un-done non-destructively, but I agree it is not in the average sparky's standard solutions. Those of us who do electronics could probably solder all the cores at a ring end faster than a socket or similar could be fitted, but I do not think anyone would want to.

    I do recall from reading about it, that in some of  the discussion documents that date from  when rings 1st came in in, there was a school of thought that to be safe that the wiring of the ring really should be ensured to be metallically continuous, and clearly to thread up with  an unbroken wire is not possible, so perhaps the soldering was to achieve that unbreakable loop. I don't think the idea survived 1st contact with reality, as the unequal current sharing is not that much of an issue in practice.

    Mike.

     

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