ledow t1_jd5gdok wrote on March 21, 2023 at 11:32 PM

Reply to comment by Wellcraft19 in Why should wires not be twisted before putting in wire nut? by dhekurbaba

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 on March 21, 2023 at 11:36 PM

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 on March 21, 2023 at 11:49 PM

"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.