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Wago connectors with too many wires

Branta

The electrician who wired my (new) home takes the live feed to a light switch in each room (rather than to the rose).  Thus each room has a light switch back box with four neutrals commoned in a WAGO 2273 connector (feed in, feed onward, wiring to luminaire, wiring to spots).  I'm guessing the spots were a surprise to him as he seems only to have had a stock of 3-way WAGO connectors.  He's consistently managed to wedge four 1mmsq wires into a 3-way WAGO 2273.

I know this is wrong, the "extra" wire just can't be clamped like the WAGO design intended.  What is driving me nuts is that nowhere can I find it written down that it is wrong !

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    Well the only folk that will be able to tell you it is right or wrong are wago as the design authority for the connectors - after all there are some terminal designs that do take bunches of cables - though this is indeed not really one, though I suspect it will work just fine on a lightly loaded circuit.  Certainly the lever design wagos can take multiple thin flexes, sleeved and dressed to present as if it was one flex with a larger number of cores.  I'm inclined to agree that what you describe is not right, though if wago say so in print is another matter. You could do worse than ask wago technical

    Mike.

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    Agreed, but see above ... they say solid only on product/packaging (and data sheet further qualifies crimp pin or ferrule could be used for other stranding classes), so I can't see them giving the "go ahead" to be honest.

    Quick fix with either ferrule or crimp pin (of the correct length, of course) to make it fully compliant ... it's a "no brainer", but I think the issue is compounded with conflicting (or more truthfully, incomplete) information at the distributors as above.

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    Agreed, but see above ... they say solid only on product/packaging (and data sheet further qualifies crimp pin or ferrule could be used for other stranding classes), so I can't see them giving the "go ahead" to be honest.

    Quick fix with either ferrule or crimp pin (of the correct length, of course) to make it fully compliant ... it's a "no brainer", but I think the issue is compounded with conflicting (or more truthfully, incomplete) information at the distributors as above.

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