We have a thick cable leading to the pond area in the garden. It has a breaker at the house end. When we moved in it had a standard household socket box on the garden end.
After redoing the pond I decided to put a weatherproof junction box on the garden end of the cable to wire my pond pump and UV filter to.
The cable is really heavy duty, the live and neutral have about 6 thick rigid wires in each, and the earth's wrap around the outside of each wire.
My box only has fairly small holes for connecting cables - like you would have on a normal household plug.
As I'm not able to get all of the wires into the connections I'm not sure what to do. Would it be ok to cut a few strands off to get them in? I think i could get 3 or 4 of the thick strands connected for each. There wouldnt be that much power drawn by the pump...Otherwise what are my options? I don't want to run a whole new cable from the house.
Thanks
After redoing the pond I decided to put a weatherproof junction box on the garden end of the cable to wire my pond pump and UV filter to.
The cable is really heavy duty, the live and neutral have about 6 thick rigid wires in each, and the earth's wrap around the outside of each wire.
My box only has fairly small holes for connecting cables - like you would have on a normal household plug.
As I'm not able to get all of the wires into the connections I'm not sure what to do. Would it be ok to cut a few strands off to get them in? I think i could get 3 or 4 of the thick strands connected for each. There wouldnt be that much power drawn by the pump...Otherwise what are my options? I don't want to run a whole new cable from the house.
Thanks
