Ooops.. twin and earth repair

I did suggest it earlier ... as cables enter from both ends. and the connections are just as good.


It would have looked better if the cables came together and turned UP into the Wagobox mounted vertically - so no cable wrapping round the box.

 

It's fine. Who is going to be looking at it? (apart from people on here). I just think he was lucky to have enough spare cable . Never happened to me.

 

Could you crimp and heat shrink the two cables together?

 

I think he's done it, last week!

 

Do any of you rate those in-line connectors by Ideal, orangey clear plastic, push fit. Pity they didn't make a wago-type box to protect them but the connectors do a tidy job.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/ideal-spliceline-in-line-wire-connectors-pack-of-100/72727

 

used them a few times,got me out of trouble recently with the wife lol,she wanted to lower a wall light that was fed in trunking on the other side of the wall,cable was too short but I managed to get a joing in the trunking using those very connectors.

 

They have their uses ... for example, joining two neutrals - feed and to light within a back box, or extending cables where space is restricted. I prefer the Wago Levers though - and it would be nice if Wago made an in-line or back to back one.

 

I agree, wished they did too, but these do have a good grip on the conductor and you can't pull them out again unless you unscrew them. Found a "terminal box" in B&Q today that could be used to protect the connectors from the environment and can be screwed closed.

 

All we need now is for him to drill through the Wago next! lol

 

I've used these connectors myself to move a socket on the ring following a reshuffle of room layout
Put the connectors inside the humble choc box and worked for me
Maintenance free connections, cord grips, in an enclosure, popped under the floorboards and forget

 

Is that maintainable free though?
Wago connectors aren't maintenance free, They only become maintenance free if fitted in suitable enclosure. A wago box is a suitible enclosure and when installed according to the maintenance free instructions, which differ from the normal ones, it becomes maintenance free. Wago connectors in a chock box are not maintenance free. The enclosure has to have a maintenance free Mark on it for it to be maintenance free.

 

Read the instructions to make a Wago box maintenance free and you are quite correct.
I did not realise about the derating of the connectors when used as maintenance free and the cable tie to keep it closed,having never used one.
If I have had to use a maintenance free junction box I have always used an Ashley 803 or 804.