I have one live in and 3 lives out. Can I twist the 3 lives together and put into the block OR can I put the single wires in to seperate screws on the connector and use a bridge connection? Or should I connect the 1st LED and then take wires from there to the
Whatever you want as long as the wires fit into the holes - and with the proviso that the LEDs are intended for parallel connection (some require series connection to the driver)
You can do whatever works in which case... I am not a fan of twisting wires that are held in terminals (makes separation for testing harder), but there is nothing wrong with several wires in one terminal.
+1. I try and ensure all wires pass under both terminal screws. Makes for a sounder (electrical and mechanical) connection IMO. Same for butt crimps - I use a crimp that allows me to overlap the wire ends within the crimp body.
I have used those a couple of times and for some reason I dont like them as a permanent connection. (I dont know why)
Useful though when I buy something electrical like LEd panels to do a quick check that they are working or when I rigged up my LED floodlamps/PIRs indoors to check they were ok.
Compare them against your other options, multiple conductors into a single screw terminal, if you size up the block to take multiple conductors , chan ces of some slipping to side of screw increase. Specially when mixing condu ctor sizes. Leaf spring terminals are worth that bit extra.
Seen plenty of melted choc bloc due to poor contact
Crimps are good if well made with a decent tool and an accident waiting to happen if not.
Puzzles me why there appears to be no common , insulated , commoning choc b loc until Wago came along.
It`s what your used to suppose , for me have a used a lot of Wago stuff for LEDs,repatching is easy and they are an absolute boon for modules that hav e to go into ceilings, no fiddling with a screwdriver :-) Mechanics keep as king for a few now as well.
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