is it safe to connect wires for house lights and outlets with electrical tape?
Why does everyone use those moronic wire nuts?
is it safe to connect wires for house lights and outlets with electrical tape?
is it safe to connect wires for house lights and outlets with electrical tape?
Why does everyone use those moronic wire nuts?
>is it safe to connect wires for house lights and outlets with electrical tape?
Probably not no.
>Why does everyone use those moronic wire nuts?
They create a solid connection that you can't easily rip apart while you're jiggling your outlets around.
>you can't easily rip apart while you're jiggling your outlets around
how often should I be jiggling my outlets around? I'm a new homeowner and didn't realize this was a common occurrence which warranted a strong connection
Have you ever installed an outlet in your life?
>He doesn't know about biweekly outlet inspections
Ngmi
You'd be surprised how much movement a receptacle might see, especialyl if it's TR and moron homeowners waggle the plug side to side instead of up and down to get the gates to open.
>I'm a new homeowner
>is it safe to connect wires for house lights and outlets with electrical tape?
Not for long, lol.
>They create a solid connection that you can't easily rip apart while you're jiggling your outlets around.
More importantly they create a solid connection that has minimal resistance to prevent excessive heat buildup that can cause fires even in fixtures and related wiring that aren't moving at all.
I want to use tape instead because the ceiling side wire is thicker and only a single copper wire whereas the fixture has multiple thin wires. I tried to use the wire nuts on both but only got one on there decently, so I just taped the other since I was tired of messing with it
strip the stranded wire back slightly farther that the solid, use your lineman pliers to twist the stranded wire, then use them to twist the two wires together, then twist the nut on
lightly tug each wire to make sure theyre gripped by the nut
>High heels on ladder
Into the trash it goes. At least make her look like she wants to help me with my work. Too many hoes are out there, especially knowing how much they coopted and ruined nerd culture.
Three points of contact! OSHA, take her away!
Tape is not going to make a sufficient connection here at all. A wire nut would be the bare minimum. I usually use Wagos when dealing with multiple gauges.
Wagos are great for mixing stranded and solid like this
You're going to burn your house down without a proper connector. There are various sizes and styles of wire connectors
If you don't use them, you'll inevitably have your house burn down from your own moronation
Just get some lever locking connectors so you get a good contact every time
Ur supposed to twist them together with a pair of pliers idiot
The wire nut is just a cover
All these inferior solutions can wire deez nuts. The future is now.
Unironically this. As satisfying as it is to get a really nice wire nut connection, these just make it so much easier and quicker, and you don't have to shorten the wire every time you need to change something.
>internal bus bar vs direct connection
Wagos are nice for shit you're gonna be fricking with constantly, they're garbage for actual house wiring.
Euros hate wire nuts because they're limp wrist homosexuals who think twisting is too much effort and need some overcomplicated overexpensive method to feel better about themselves.
Wago's are without any argument, the best option for a homeowner/diy'er.
They're objectively worse than wirenuts. Slower, more expensive, higher resistance. All these things matter to the homegamer *and* the professional.
Admit it you all watch Great Scott and seethe don't you.
>year of our lord 2020+2.58
>watching cucktube
never gonna make it
Nice argument
nice response
2 part video and you don't even have the goddamn common courtesy to spell out the main points.
Does your husband order for you at the drivethru too?
First, you are a moron.
Second, wire amperage is rated for copper at 140f. In theory all components of an electrical system are rated for 140f. This involves a lot of thermal expansion. Electrical tape, while fireproof, would weaken and fall apart since it is not designed for tensile strength.
Wire nuts create a mechanical connection between the wires, which is resilient to thermal and temperature stresses. Wago connectors are superior and reusable, so should be used instead. The cost of $1-2 per connector instead of 0.10 is worth infinite serviceability in theory. Wire nuts slowly destroy the ends of the wire.
Why can't you just twist wires with pliers and wrap? Same issue as using just tape. Even though they are somewhat intertwined, thermal expansion will destroy the tape.
This makes the American seethe.
>This makes the American seethe.
but not as much as the fact that the great american honored in picrel had to explain how it works so europoors could gloat over the clippy-clips they use to hook up devices also made possible in large part through american ingenuity.
Picrel
Every day you have to size that down a few pixels
Bitcoin is melting away to
If you solder - yes.
Wagos are high resistance and 10x the price. Europeans are literally moronic homosexuals
>electrical tape
>turns to goop 0.05 milliseconds after coming off the roll
Bait/10, OP hooked himself a lot of fish in this one.
Also, Wagogays are obnoxious morons.