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| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: rhb on November 05, 2018, 07:36:19 pm --- --- Quote from: drussell on November 05, 2018, 05:19:27 am --- --- Quote from: Karlo_Moharic on November 04, 2018, 08:21:23 pm ---Much safer to use something like this : --- End quote --- Oh my... Good GOD no... Those things are terrible! :scared: That kind of horrible thing is never allowed in any kind of permanent wiring installation anywhere here in NA, at least not that I'm aware of. I certainly would never use those anywhere, even inside some solid steel kitchen appliance or industrial apparatus that couldn't possibly burst into flames. --- End quote --- Actually, most US wall receptacles currently being sold have a connection like that. It's packaged differently, but the principle is the same. It was up to 12 AWG, but now they only allow that connection for 14 AWG. --- End quote --- From what I've been able to tell, most of them are pretty terrible. There are good spring connectors, and then there are bad ones. I will own up to having used them on one recessed outlet to power a TV, because it turned out the breaker was mislabeled and a long walk away.. easier to just poke it in than try and bend a live wire around those screw terminals. |
| rhb:
I'm not sure I've ever used one. I prefer to bend wires around screws. Though I have worked on outlets where they were used to add another circuit leg. |
| KL27x:
--- Quote ---From what I've been able to tell, most of them are pretty terrible. There are good spring connectors, and then there are bad ones. --- End quote --- If you can press it with a finger like in this picture, it is not the kind of connector I would go out of my way to put in a circular saw. >:D Even a very small screw can generate a lot of force compared to that. Even solder and heatshrink would be better for vibration, IMO. |
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