Inside the mini junction box on the Dayton motor for my whole house fan there are two types of connectors. One is a nut on a post. The other is a spade lug. There is a knockout for a cable clamp.
How do I connect to these? Do I crimp the appropriate connectors onto the wires in NM cable? For crimping connectors onto wire, it seems like flexible wire would be better - not the solid wire in NM.
Thanks for any help.
On 4/29/2009 8:38 AM Mitch spake thus:
Either solid or stranded wire should work OK with crimped connectors.
What I'd do is solder the connectors onto the wires so I know they're not going to loosen sometime in the future. Call me paranoid, but I just don't trust connections that rely only on the holding power of a little bit of sheet metal to work.
Soldering after crimping should take all of 5 minutes.
Hmm, Solder? Then it becomes same as using a solid wire which can crack and break.
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