On 17/10/2019 00:44, John Miller wrote:

Interested to know how others do this, particularly the professionals.
When spurring off a socket on the ring, there's always 3 cables to fit
into the holes. In the past I've tried twisting the 3 together, usually
with pliers, but not always successfully, folding individual cables back
on themselves just don't seems to fit even clamping them up tightly with
pliers- 2 OK but not 3.Â* Fitting them with a single strand seems to be
the easiest way but is it a good idea?

Personally I don' twist[1]. Just strip the right length of insulation
and insert all straight into the terminal. The quality of the connection
will be the same, and its easier to separate for testing at a later
stage if required.

(not a fan of using one bit of earth sleeving for multiple cables either)

[1] on odd occasions when terminating a single cable, it might be
necessary to fold a wire end over to make a big enough target for the
terminal screw.


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Cheers,

John.

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