Terminating cables

[BBee1]

Afternoon All
Please can you clarify something for me? I need to terminate some cables in a void and I am trying to work out best practice for this. As the void will be filled and a skirting board placed ontop, it won't be accessible. Do I need to use maintance free (wago connectors) or would choc box and insulating tape be sufficient.

Many thanks

 

[ricicle]

Small adaptable box and correctly crimped joint is the only correct way IMO. I take it none of the cables will be <50mm behind any part of the skirting ?

 

[rjm2k]

can't you identify where the cables come from and disconnect there?

 

[Johnmelad]

Afternoon All
Please can you clarify something for me? I need to terminate some cables in a void and I am trying to work out best practice for this. As the void will be filled and a skirting board placed ontop, it won't be accessible. Do I need to use maintance free (wago connectors) or would choc box and insulating tape be sufficient.

Many thanks

Wago don't make maint free connectors, do they?

What did the cables power before you stopped needing them?

 

[Chri5]

Where does the oap suggest the cables are redundant?

You will need access to the joins, back box and falt face plate?

Weren't wago in the process of getting their kit updated to the Brit standard for mf?

 

[Chri5]

Where does the oap suggest the cables are redundant?

You will need access to the joins, back box and flat blank face plate?

Weren't wago in the process of getting their kit updated to the Brit standard for mf?

 

[SaladFingers]

Afternoon All
Please can you clarify something for me? I need to terminate some cables in a void and I am trying to work out best practice for this. As the void will be filled and a skirting board placed ontop, it won't be accessible. Do I need to use maintance free (wago connectors) or would choc box and insulating tape be sufficient.

Many thanks

Wago don't make maint free connectors, do they?

Yes, they do.

 

[Johnmelad]

Where does the oap suggest the cables are redundant?

You will need access to the joins, back box and flat blank face plate?

Weren't wago in the process of getting their kit updated to the Brit standard for mf?

He said terminate in a void, won't be accessible.

Wago have brought out a MF box so connectors are only MF when in the box.

 

[Johnmelad]

Afternoon All
Please can you clarify something for me? I need to terminate some cables in a void and I am trying to work out best practice for this. As the void will be filled and a skirting board placed ontop, it won't be accessible. Do I need to use maintance free (wago connectors) or would choc box and insulating tape be sufficient.

Many thanks

Wago don't make maint free connectors, do they?

Yes, they do.

No they don't, only maint free when enclosed in MF Box.

 

[Taylortwocities]

SF's making things up, again..

It's nice to see that stupid signature has been removed due to popular demand from the mods

 

[Click4]

Wago don't make maint free connectors, do they?

WAGO on their own aren't maintenance free, but when used inside a WagoBox then they are maintenance free and the box has the MF logo as of October this year.

 

[JohnW2]

Where does the oap suggest the cables are redundant?

It sounds as if you are assuming that the OP is familiar with electricians' terminology/jargon - which I would suggest most non-electricians are not. I would guess that to the vast majority of the general public, 'terminate' means 'to end' - which, in this context would very probably mean that there were some unconnected ends of cables (hence 'redundant') that (s)he wanted to deal with safely/appropriately (c.f. 'capping off' an usused pipe). If they were talking about 'joining' a cable to something else (another cable,an accessory or whatever), I think that nearly all members of the general public would talk in terms of something like 'connecting' (or even just 'joining'), not 'terminating'.

However, as always, only the OP can tell us what (s)he actually means by 'terminate'.

Kind Regards, John

 

[Johnmelad]

Wago don't make maint free connectors, do they?

WAGO on their own aren't maintenance free, but when used inside a WagoBox then they are maintenance free and the box has the MF logo as of October this year.

That's what I said...