On 06/09/2015 10:00 AM, Uncle Monster wrote:
When you're spending 8 hours a day working with bundles of #14 stranded wire as big around as your arm, you'll want an automatic stripper. The wires aren't stripped in close quarters inside the panel, the wire bundles are prepped while hanging outside of the panel. When you have a complicated system that may have connection changes made during the installation, the wires aren't run straight to the terminal with little or no slack.

Maybe in you world. We laid out the panels with Panduit wire duct
separating the banks of octal relay bases. First the intrarelay wiring
was done. Strip the end of the 16 gauge MTW, screw it to the terminal on
the base, run it to the correct relay, cut, strip, and screw it down.
For the pushbuttons, selector switches, Eagle Signal timers and so for
mounted in the doors, they would be harnessed up, the bundle run into
the duct, and then connected to the relay bases as needed.

My techs could use anything they wanted but after wrestling with
automatic strippers, they gravitated to Ideal T-5's.