Crimps inside the CU

[cogsey133]

I much prefer using crimps in a cu.....its personal choice. However just for to put the cat amongst the proverbial How may people use a calibrated crimping tool?


Tin hat well and truly on.......lol

 

[seftonbarn]

I much prefer using crimps in a cu.....its personal choice. However just for to put the cat amongst the proverbial How may people use a calibrated crimping tool?


Tin hat well and truly on.......lol

Mine's calibrated.....................to 4 white knuckles.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

The only downside i see with wago's, is that if you have to extend a lot of cores, they take up a lot of space. I would use wago's for maybe one or two extensions, but would crimp if there is a lot to do. what i have also done in the past, where space permits, is to mount an enclosure somewhere convenient, put in some din rail and connectors, run the existing into it, and extended from it to the CU. This does look neat, all connections are readily accessible, and it keeps the innards of the CU clear for next time you test etc. It also gives you a convenient point to break into the circuits for fault finding and such, without the need to take the CU to bits.

Cheers............Howard

 

[somersetsparks]

Read this and thought, yeah, that sounds like the dogs doo daas; I've got a heat gun, I'll do that. But then I thought. Hang on, I've got no power during the CU change, how can I use the heat gun? There's a hole in my bucket dear lisa.....What can you use as a source of heat when heat shrinking over crimped cables during a CU change

The handy smoke lighter, always in my back pocket. Just got to be gentle lol, unlike me as a first year who stuck the blue bit of the flame on it and burnt it!

 

[cogsey133]

iroda pt-220 pro-torch approx £25 from maplin.....its the mutts nuts for such a job

 

[Guitarist]

Only in your world!! lol!!! Once a solid core has been de-formed within a crimp, you'ld need to be a ''Desperate Dan'' character to be able to pull it out!!

Well, oh mighty one, in "my world" I come across a lot of jobs where people have had a go with crimps and a cheap crimping tool, and the results are usually pretty shocking! I agree that with a good tool (mine's an elpress), decent quality crimps and some experience of how to do it properly, a crimp on solid core is adequate. I still think that for the average sparkie, a wago is a good quality constant-pressure joint, and better than crimping. I'd forgotten what this place is like.... I may just have to forget again

 

[i=p/u]

il do either cause once you get swing of it, no probs either way....... wagos are good, but see when have to get 4-5 cables in a wago box, what a dissaster

 

[Adam]

No, ...Never use PVC tape on crimp connections always use heat shrink!!! For an even neater job you could use bare crimps with 2 layers of heat shrink to insulate them.

Why two layers? One should give you the required insulation.

Or you can buy heat shrinkable insulated crimps. For aesthetics sake, i always like to see the appropriate core coloured heat shrink over crimp connections...

What colour do you use for pre 2004 wiring (Brown or Red)?

 

[i=p/u]

i guess he uses brown

 

[Adam]

i guess he uses brown

I'm sure he does to.

 

[bluestar]

i`ve read some right old tosh on here from using wagos to bare crimps, double sleeved, temp boards for fk sake if they aint long enough
crimps are the best solution neat small easy to loom im amazed some of you get the job done

 

[Marvo]

crimps are the best solution neat small easy to loom im amazed some of you get the job done

After dismissing every other method you gave a very nondescript answer. What kind of 'crimps' exactly?

 

[kingeri]

i`ve read some right old tosh on here from using wagos to bare crimps, double sleeved, temp boards for fk sake if they aint long enough
crimps are the best solution neat small easy to loom im amazed some of you get the job done

This is forum....hence by definition folks contribute different ideas and opinions. Those who dismiss others' input as 'tosh' generally have exceedingly small brains, therefore can't contribute anything useful.

 

[sedgy34]

Wow 43 posts on this subject

 

[pennywise]

44 and counting