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Christian McArdle wrote:
A standard round 4 way 20A terminal block is what you need. The

terminals
are used for earth, neutral, switched live and perm live. They're not

as
easy to wire up as the loop terminals, though, which have separate

screws
for each wire, rather than a large shared one, where the other wire

always
pops out when you are tightening.

Christian.


That's just the problem I always have with junction boxes. Not so much
I can't get the job done, but I do find having fewer wires per screw
raises my confidence that they're all house squarely and tightly.

There was a box in the MK catalogue (maybe a standard any brand item?)
with (IIRC) 3-blocks of quad way connectors which is a close-ish match
to what I see as the ideal. It looks like there's space in there for a
single choc-block element for the earth, or maybe joining the switched
live to the actual lamp.

My search continues...

IanC