UK 3 x 2.5mm T&Es into one 13A socket. How do you do it?

[Mark42]

I've always disliked needing to wrangle three 2.5mm T&Es into one 13A socket.

The three solid cores rarely sit cleanly, and there's always the suspicion that at least one core is not being held properly:

Lately I've been doing this, using 5-way Wagos and bits of stranded 2.5mm single, fitted with ferrules, into the socket itself:

Of course that's more joints. Perhaps unnecessary joints. But it appears to me a more secure and more maintenance-free method.

I don't believe there's any regulatory reason why it can't be done like this.

What do others do/think?

 

[pirate]

But...is a Wago really a busbar?

(Grabs coat and runs for the hills...)

 

[pirate]

Sorry...
It's not been a good day so far!
Off on holiday tomorrow to the land where choc-block and leccy tape rules!
...and nobody dies!
Well, not many from electrocution anyway...

 

[ipf]

Sorry...
It's not been a good day so far!
Off on holiday tomorrow to the land where choc-block and leccy tape rules!
...and nobody dies!
Well, not many from electrocution anyway...

Take some wire nuts with you to give 'em some more ideas.

I'm sorry....................................................for continuing this thread.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Sorry...
It's not been a good day so far!
Off on holiday tomorrow to the land where choc-block and leccy tape rules!
...and nobody dies!
Well, not many from electrocution anyway...

My parents used to have an apartment in Crete every summer we went their the additions to the wiring always made me laugh.
Choc blocks all over the floor spliced here there and everywhere with white flexes for outside lights , twisted tape joints for ceiling fans... all brand new work done over the winter

 

[telectrix]

never had prob. with 3. 4 is tight and 5 is almost beyond it. once has to drill terminal oversize to get all in. allways remember, we are electricians, not wet-pants or wood butchers. there are no problems, only solutions.

 

[mainline]

I think it was JohnSJW wasn't it?

That's probably why it turned into an argument rather than a debate then