DIYbanter - View Single Post - connecting multi-strand to copper wire for lighting

HaLiGoOn

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Does anyone know the best way to connect a multi-strand wire to copper
wire?
This is for a recessed light in the ceiling of our top floor hallway.
Therefore the housing for the light is going in the attic/roof. The
housing itself includes the multi-strand wire, that I have to connect
the copper wire to that is fed in from the light switch.

Right now, I have used the screw on cone shaped type connectors (I
forget what they're called ... merriates????) but the connection does
not look that good - the multi-strand wire seems to fray quite easily.

Thx!!

They are generically called "wire nuts".

You need to twist the stranded wire with your fingers to make it similar to
a solid wire, next lead off with the stranded wire before putting on the
wire nut. That is, put the stranded wire higher than the solid wire, then
twist on the wire nut.

Here is a similar description with a photo.

http://www.rd.com/familyhandyman/content/37173/