"Rob G" wrote in message
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On 14 May, 15:59, John Rumm wrote:
Anode wrote:
When using 2.5mm twin-and-earth cable, and where two wires go into one
terminal on the back of a socket, should the two bare wire ends be
twisted
together?

I have read Google sources that think twisting weakens the wire, and
say,
e.g. "Insert wires fully into their terminals. Don't twist two or more
wires
together".

A different Google source says "Taking the conductors, twist each
together
... now insert the pairs of conductors into the correspondingly labelled
terminal".

Socket manufacturers such as MK have nothing to say on this matter in
their
installation instruction sheets.

What is good practice, should the wires be twisted, or not twisted?

Not twisted. If you twist them it makes future testing and maintenance a
pain.

--
Cheers,

John.

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What about the CPC then - if I've got two coming from the same access
point in the backbox, I usually twist them before slipping the
sleeving over.

Rob

Earth sleeving is cheap enough to cover both CPCs with seperate sleeving.

Adam