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[pirate]

I may need a tin hat, but...
with small cable sizes it might be ok to put 2 into one wago slot, but why do it?
If you haven't any 4-ways...actually 5 - ways, don't think they do 4-way, why not just fly-lead a 3-way and another 3-way together?
Works for me...

 

[DPG]

It's only ok if the connector being used is designed for it

 

[pirate]

I might daisy-chain 2 wagos...but any more and it's just silly.
I was fitting an outside floodlight the other day and used 3-way wagos, cos you never know when you might like to fit another one, but sometimes it seems that every penny is a prisoner...I hate that!
OK, if you are building 100,000 cars a year, every £ makes a difference, but with the prices nowadays, why not just add £100 to each one? Nobody buys them, they lease them, so the extra cost is negligible. It seems it's ok to use a cheap choc-block if it will never be disturbed, but honestly, for a few pence more...
Oh, I'm just tired...ignore me!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Another bodge found a while back now. Switch being used to isolate 7.5kw shower

 

[Wilko]

I know it's not the worst thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing ?

 

[Wilko]

I know it's a small thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing?

 

[dksanders]

Called out to a restaurant as the kitchen was tripping out. This is the DB which feeds the restaurant, a sub main to the kitchen and also flats above.

Apart from being horribly imbalanced, not the tidiest of jobs, no grommet strip where the cable go through the case, but on the face of it it looks reasonable, all the socket circuits are RCBO protected etc. until I noticed that the white RCBO earth leads were tucked behind the other wires and not connected to anything so they won't operate as quickly as designed or in the case of an earth fault if the neutral was also lost.

I'm going back to put a new sub main into the kitchen (the existing 63A one is over loaded and tripping the MCB) but I'm dreading doing IR testing on the RCBO protected circuits for when I connect those earth leads as I'm sure there's going to be lots of faults and that's probably why the 'electrician' left them disconnected.

 

[dksanders]

Oh well. at least it was sleeved......

 

[pirate]

this one wasn't...

However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

 

[Rpa07]

That’s a nice colour wall! Anyone we know, VIPoo by any chance?

this one wasn't...
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However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...