A WAGO terminal that needs a screwdriver 🪛

Just watch your fingers when using the Wago 285 series DIN rail connectors.

#wago #electricalwiring

[miketucker]

Seen those fail…. But they had been under water live for several hours

[thelred-phlq]

It looks like playing with a battle builders toy set.

[PlayerXIII]

I can't tell the design with all the quick cuts and closeup shots 🤷

[dereklane]

They dont need a crimping tool! Saves time and hardware.

[thaphreak]

That's a nice WAGO catalog you got there lol

[nachomg]

You can hold open the cable terminal by pushing the orange button

[literallycanadian]

You know its so funny, there are so many of these very fancy useful terminal block technologies, and yet i aint ever seen them actually used.

[aggese]

Black cable into a blue socket and then brown cable just feel wrong, no clue if it's to code but it feels like blue sockets should only ever have blue neutral cables going to and from it

[abbauhammer]

i like this ones, they are powerful. i don't feel the other ones, when you use pins, are strong enough to get enough surface connections.

[OldLordSpeedy]

This Wago clamps do you can buy in the European Union since over 10 years. The colours are yellow/green, blue, and grey. Do you can marked the grey clamps with brown or black (for L1 or L2) or with L1 till L3 markers.

The extra over them be for cables from 0.75 mm² till 2.5 mm² - after the big clamps love 6 till 35 mm² only. It is for the main lines after the power companys border. The smaller parts are for lights, power connectors, or measure equipment inside the street cabinets or border cabinets from power company into your own company. Normally European Union houses use 63/64 ampere but big companies or charching points or circus/flea markets need 125 ampere at every three phase - what exactly match 35 mm². 😳

Why the UK didn't know them? They are for exactly one connector at every size. They use a hex screwdriver - do you can buy one self or from WAGO company with a t-grip for your hands. One WAGO clamp costs only around 15 €, but WAGO sell 15 pices into one package only. The number is WAGO 285, for every how not see it in the video. 😂

[vladimirbulanov]

Если увеличить число разъёмных соединений в проводке до 10 - точно будет надёжнее 😂

[MrIdiotkiwi]

I had a bad experience with early spring cage terminals that resulted in several thousand DIN terminals being replaced.

Thankfully, the current ones are a lot better, and I'm comfortable using them, just please make sure you get all the strands in the things when you terminate!

[jonhunter]

Have started seeing these push fit connections appearing in BMS panels. Don't like them. Prefer to ferrule my cables and screw connectors.

[elfnetdesigns]

There are already terminals for DIN Rail that dont have to have the conductors screwed down, the are opened by inserting a flathead screwdriver into one slot, insert the wire, remove the screwdriver and the wire is held in place.. The also make screw down type terminals also and those are more common

[ManleyEvangelista]

THANK YOU for taking words out of my mouth. These services are getting scammy.

[tayloratnip]

Those are the worst! I do industrial maintenance and these always fail and you can't get them back in. Management wants to know why hooking up a set of wires takes 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds. These always strip and the ones we have are suposed to take clutch bits that no one ever has. Bring back my old philpis screw lugs that acctually reliably worked for 60 plus years!

[walsakaluk]

Wagos are quick and convenient. That's it.
Instead of an integrated lever you use a screwdriver lever in this instance.
How do you "torque" a wago connection?

[sethm]

Just finished a couple of industrial panel builds here that used almost 100 feet of din rail. These are cool. I use an electric torque screw driver when I do my wiring though so they all are torque spec'ed for the size of the terminal, power supply, fuse box, breaker etc. Im guessing these are used for residential builds? Pretty neat stuff though.

[mirandasmith]

We use them on compressors that are built in Europe but sold in US. They don’t last that long, they confuse electricians, they make for “easy” connections, and to tell you the truth I don’t mind using them.

[gowengetter]

Wago are here in Australia but I don’t use their products. IMO, you can’t beat the good old twisting of cables and screw connectors.