On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:08:39 -0800, edbedb wrote:

wrote:
Does anyone know the best way to connect a multi-strand wire to copper
wire?

Yes, someone knows.

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!!

Wire nuts. Smallest size that will hold a 14 ga solid wire.
ighly twist the strands of the stranded. Then using serious linesmens'
pliers,
twist the stranded and the 14 ga feeder, then wire nut the two.

What if you have a copper feeder, and TWO stranded wires?
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