Submitted by dhekurbaba t3_11x1rl7 in DIY
Wellcraft19 t1_jd5f60p wrote
Reply to comment by FlatterFlat in Why should wires not be twisted before putting in wire nut? by dhekurbaba
Wire nuts are very common - on stranded wires - in Northern Europe (Sweden). Every house I’ve seen has them in the junction boxes. That said, screw terminals (‘sugar cubes’) have a place as well. But they are not better than wire nuts properly applied.
ledow t1_jd5gdok wrote
UK - never seen one.
Never saw one in Italy, either.
I can't even imagine why you'd want to use them, to be honest. They're fiddly as hell.
And as others have echoed: Wago nowadays. Every electrician I know has gone for just having a box of Wagos and the last two I asked (who were working on large installs for workplaces) didn't even carry screw terminal blocks with them any more.
Wellcraft19 t1_jd5gyux wrote
Maybe because properly applied, few connections are as electrically solid as when using wire nuts. But they sure are used more here in the US - where electrical standards are about a century behind Northern Europe.
ledow t1_jd5isi4 wrote
"Wire nuts are not used in the UK because the old ceramic ones were banned many years ago for good reason"
I don't think they're any more solid, and there's a lot of talk that they weaken the connections over time / repeated use.
I've lived in houses (and worked in workplaces) with 40's and 50's wiring (and a couple of workplaces with literal 100-year-old wiring still in place, but unused) and things never came loose, just the opposite.
FlatterFlat t1_jd64cum wrote
I'm from Denmark, never seen a wire nut.
Wellcraft19 t1_jd6b21n wrote
I’ll rephrase it then as ‘Scandinavia’ 😄
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