wago terminals and wiska 2 part gel

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Anyone had much experience using wiska boxes with wago lever terminals
And using the wiska 2 part gel to fill boxes?

After testing continuity after filling the box, am getting continuity between live and neutral showing
a dead short between conductors! Is this just occurring during the curing process? Or are these products just not compatible?

I'm more of a domestic indoor kind of guy, so don't encounter underground joints too often as I struggle to trust them!! which is why I'm asking.

 

[Leesparkykent]

What cable are you joining?

 

[Hellmooth]

Did you use 3 x 2 port wago connectors?

 

[Jigglybuf]

What cable are you joining?

It's splitting supplies to external lights, so I used 4 port lever connectors. All conductors are copper.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Ther should be no problem with the gel, or the Wagos. The gel has no continuity even when curing. Sounds like a wiring fault.

Did you test continuity and operation before you gelled it?

 

[Dave OCD]

Silly question I know but are you testing L-N with anything connected at the other end ?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Good question, but its a "dead short" so, by definition, no more than zero ohms.

 

[Hellmooth]

Did think of asking the same question......

 

[Dave OCD]

Good question, but its a "dead short" so, by definition, no more than zero ohms.

Yeah but he wouldn't be testing insulation resistance on a continuity setting, at 500v [or even 250v] test voltage a connected low current load wouldn't indicate much above zero on the Megohms scale.

 

[davesparks]

Yeah but he wouldn't be testing insulation resistance on a continuity setting, at 500v [or even 250v] test voltage a connected low current load wouldn't indicate much above zero on the Megohms scale.

The OP clearly stated he tested continuity and found a dead short.

 

[amlu]

Hi, as far as I know WAGO does not do 4pole lever connector. Theres 2 pole, 3 pole or 5 pole.
You sure you used 3 connectors to make that joint? One for live, one for neutral, one for earth? Sticking them all in one will result in dead short.
Plug in a continuity tester at the beginning of circuit, let it beep or make some other noise for that dead short, start disconnecting the circuit bit by bit and see where is messed up.

 

[R G]

Hi, as far as I know WAGO does not do 4pole lever connector. Theres 2 pole, 3 pole or 5 pole.
You sure you used 3 connectors to make that joint? One for live, one for neutral, one for earth? Sticking them all in one will result in dead short.
Plug in a continuity tester at the beginning of circuit, let it beep or make some other noise for that dead short, start disconnecting the circuit bit by bit and see where is messed up.

Im thinking the same , the gel type underground joints I have used have been O/K , the other thing I can think of is that with all the rain maybe he hasn't fully closed the joint or it came apart when laying it sand its got water in it ...

 

[edrobbo8]

Never had continuity when making joints with wiska gel and wago lever connectors - one job had 50 burided JBs all wago lever connectors and all filled with gel and not had a fault in over 3 years!

 

[Taylortwocities]

Im thinking the same , the gel type underground joints I have used have been O/K , the other thing I can think of is that with all the rain maybe he hasn't fully closed the joint or it came apart when laying it sand its got water in it ...

But a joint affected by water. etc will not show a dead short. You have another problem to resolve!

I will ask again,

Did you test continuity and operation before you gelled it?