Chinese Wire Connectors

A selection of wire connectors direct from China. Tested at 3750 volts, and opened to see what's inside.

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[jamescole]

Nice video. Never make fun of Chinese manufacturing. They pretty much own the market in terminal blocks which is what these are, minus the screws. If they set their minds on something they can dominate it by having prices that are 1/4 of the competition. If they get those UL listed or european approved they will compete.

[ColinRichardson]

I got some of these "not fake wago, fake wago" when I seen Big Clive review them. They were exactly the shape I wanted and they were only going in quick hobby projects anyway. :D Good to see all the other types. I find the 3 individual wires to 3 individual wires to be my common use-case. Not once have I wanted to connect 1 wire to (4?) others. Maybe that is just me.

Surely the colours are just to show that blue goes to blue, red goes to red. Not to denote the type of wire that goes in.

And as for the slop on the lever, I would want that. The leaver is just there to lift the gripping part of the connector, if the lever had no slop in it, it would mean it's not letting the connector grip as tight on to the wire as it could do.The lever itself is not the thing holding the wire.

[Lyndalewinder]

These actually seem quite well designed and made. A current test would have been very informative since that is the area where weaknesses in manufacture etc. would most likely have shown but so far I have not seen anything that would put me off using them - at least within my own properties. I think we need a follow-up test on these John.

[johnpm]

I got some with Brown, Blue, Yellow, levers, 3 way straight thru, they are ideal for making quick test leads for mains powering equipment under test, they work quickly for temporary connections and insulate well enough...
You can also get 9 into 3, 6 into 3, 4 into 2 etc all coloured correctly and can work for lighting...

[johncrunk]

I don't use these for high currents, but for the usual lighting circuits they are fine. They sure beat the crappy US wire nuts that are pure junk.

[pigrew]

In China, the "standard" way to splice wires is to twist them together and cover that with PVC tape. I'd propose that all of these are better than that.

Installing earth wires is nearly unheard-of, so the 3-wire products use colors for 3-phase (and not twin/earth). Wiring used green/yellow, sometimes blue/red, and things are supposed to be trending towards blue/brown for single phase.

[eliotmansfield]

Headphone people may want to remove them. People who spent the 90's in the ministry of sound might need to turn the volume up.

[kyrengorkian]

So - well made, fit for purpose connectors, capable of handling mains voltage. I'll use them with confidence and not be put off by your (anti) Chinesium bias.

[philjordan]

There does seem to be some anti-Chinese bias going on here that seems somewhat unjustifiable. Both in this test, and one or two you've done in the past, the components have passed every test you've thrown at them, and yet still negativity hangs in the air. I don't know whether they are, but it wouldn't come as the biggest shock to discover the much lauded Wago connectors were also made in China - many many things that we DO use with confidence every day actually are. The Chinese will produce whatever you want; if you want rubbish they'll produce rubbish. If you want quality they'll produce quality. They are very capable of either.

[rajgunaseelan]

The colors are for 3 phase delta wiring without a neutral. R - Red, Y - Yellow, B - Blue phases

[akdenyer]

Hi John, I find your dry humour so funny. You are about the only person that makes me laugh. Particularly the video on the Southern Electricity book. Keep them coming I love your videos. Technically brilliant and so funny.

[peterjones]

In the interests of "Scientific Rigour" it would be good to see the genuine Wago version subjected to the same torture...

[denisohbrien]

i love these pass thro not wago wagos. very very handy when troubleshooting auto-electrical stuff, i woutldnt trust one in a wall, but id certainly use them for low current lighting and absolutely love them for my work (all low voltage stuff) and for prototyping my gadgets (again low voltage stuff) .. bought a load after mikeelectricstuff video on them.

[Dan-vwsf]

It's a red yellow blue, clearly for a reliable three phase setup

[LeUvula]

I would have liked to see current pass through test with those connectors.

[debeeriz]

you should put them in tandem with a wago and pump the amps through until either one or the wire fails

[Stefan_Van_pellicom]

If you do an installation with Wago and your client’s house catches fire, you’ll be held responsible anyway. And good luck trying to sue Wago !

[helmanfrow]

Despite their passing some rudimentary tests, I would not risk using the Fake Wago (can we call them Fuego?) connectors for line voltage in any permanent installation which houses life or livelihood. That said, these would be great on the test bench, in prototyping, and anywhere else that Wagos would be cost-prohibitive. The pass-through connectors in particular look great for clipping to the bare ends of wall-wart power supplies to allow quick swapping of different connectors.

[apollorobb]

Black Blue and Red fits the US 208/230 3ph color standard and orange yellow brown for 460v 3ph standard

[dmitripogosian]

funny how three years later internet is all excited that Wago finally introduced inline connectors :)