you all ready for this
you all ready for this well i wasn't ready for you doing that but today we're going to look at the mk
logic plus rapid fix you'll be telling me next that socket has no screws
it has no screws yeah you're right and yeah a couple of years ago we teased out an image didn't
we we suggested that screw the sockets were on the way and we made this that's uh yeah no expense bed
okay patent pending i see there so you've glued some weight goes onto the back of a socket outlet
yeah that was it and then people got all excited about it people tried to even buy some from us but
that wasn't possible and then obviously some people came in and said oh do the
standards allow for this newfangled screwless technology all right okay well let's see does
it does the standards allow for it now then well let's just have a quick recap on BS1363-2
amended 2018 i'm sure everyone reads it on a regular basis never put it down
yeah and in there section 11.1 it mentions screwless terminals and socket outlets so
absolutely is allowed so it was a case of who's going to be first and who were first? mk by
honeywell yeah and and here it is and it was quite ironic because i think the socket outlet you glued
your way goes to was also an mk socket so did you know something nobody else knew two years ago
who knows gary have my never reveal your sources yes let's have a look i mean it's it is you're
right yeah it's amazingly similar i'm going to tease it in i'm going to tease it in there it is
so we've got three levers for each of our conductors there pretty similar to what you
did there is there any rules about what those levers need to be able to take then gordon
yeah so there's a lot so i mean let's start with a conductor size of saw to be
a 13 amp socket right so we've got an old you know very commodity one here all sockets need
to be able to take three 2.5 millimeter conductors or 1.5 you're probably thinking back to your day
doing the old mineral insulated yeah or perhaps more common now two four millimeter conductors
are you thinking the plus large radial surface for a kitchen so before we get to that shall we
review what we used to like about the mk logic plus socket outlet in their range yeah so that's
a totally endless so i'll just turn that one over yeah keep it comfortable so here's the existing
logic plus the first thing we always used to like is the fact that all the terminals are in line on
the back yeah and so that obviously helps with your cutting lengths i'm seeing when most people
in most cases are coming from the top or from the bottom so equal length cutting lengths um backed
out screws but that doesn't matter anymore that's gone we don't need that but turn it over there's
the unique uh three pin um safety shutter so if i do this with a screwdriver don't try this at home
but i can't get the shutter down on the socket can you show me what it does here so here's a here's
the uh yeah should i say a very commodity-based product and yeah you can easily just put
anything in there and get access to the shutter now what a lot of people doing i don't again
what used to happen gary back in your day when appliances didn't have plugs on
you could just put the wires in and uh yeah people used to do things like that
i don't do that at home okay they used to do things like i had today yeah so you can't do that
with that three-pin shutter okay so lots of things in there we liked we liked obviously terminals
in line under the shutters yeah so yeah we've been moving forward we've got rid of the screws
yeah and i mean you know if you look at the market now this socket has been out for a
long time nearly 20 years i think and you know you look in the market more sockets now
you know it's a bit like mobile phones they all look very similar at the front
a classic design is a classic design those are all a classic yeah it doesn't cost yeah so when it
comes to reinventing that everything else remains the same in terms of those key safety features
and we turn it over we've still got inline terminals on the back
that we like on that socket just coming in a bit slowly for everyone so here we go again yeah yeah
so how do you operate it very simple it's okay so just lift the leave and you'll see the cage clamp
open at the back yeah you see that again let's watch there we go yeah so i can just do that
and there's nice color coded so yeah if you can't read the letters you
hopefully you've got a chance with the colors for me was it no glasses on gas
so when we think about what can go into those holes is there any rules set about that yeah so
again if we flick back to the standard itself and here's the is what's in the standard for screwless
socket outlet so the terminals must be able to take rigid so that's rigid solid okay so we would
know a class one conductor yeah or stranded a class ii conductor check out our video on that
if you don't understand the different classes of conductor or a flexible conductor class five
or both rigid solid or stranded and flexible copper conductors at the same time
yeah at the same time that's what that's reading so when we open those up we could effectively have
a class one class two and class five conductor in say the neutral cpc or line you've got an example
so this yeah so the worst case and i don't know when anyone would actually do this but
uh so here's our here's a 2.5 millimeter uh that's some after that's yeah and what you're
going for next so here's our regular 22.5 between an hour so solid class one yeah and we've got some
single class two conductor now so that's solid stranded yeah and that just goes
in and they're in there and they're not coming out but if i did want to get them out
i'll just lift the levers and remove them it's too simple see where that's gripped
you can see the sort of thing we're used to seeing with the high quality
screwless connectors you can see where it's uh it's bit into the cable but
nowhere near as much as you would do with a screw yeah and that over tightening is a problem isn't
it you you're screwing everyone's arms different some actually go through weaken the copper some
of them don't hold it hard enough but the lever will have exactly the same torque every time that
lever is shut onto those conductors yeah so that's um yeah so i mean you know you wouldn't be able
to do that with a well you'd struggle to do that with a conventional uh screwed socket to put three
different conductor types in the terminal they're all going to move differently on it so the solid
one you've got the opening up of the stranded ones as well remainder standards got to take three
um two point fives or two four millimeters you've got some four moves on four millimeter
let's bring the camera so again wiring dead easy so obviously the cpc is not four millimeters
it's not it's one five nicely this is exactly sized for that and i'll just bring our second one
in the other one so you could actually do three on this yeah so the standard say it's got to be
i take um two four millimeter squared cables and actually by this design we could have three yeah
so if you were an a2 radial socket circuit wanting to branch off from it you could branch off again
in four minutes if you wanted to yeah which then gets us thinking about the back box doesn't it
because we our first thoughts when we saw this is it's i mean it's a fraction yeah less slightly uh
slightly deeper isn't it check them out again if i look back and compare it with the existing
logic plus you can see most components on the back are the same you can see where the three
pins come in from the plug the earth bars being shifted about a bit to link the two sides together
but all in all it remains the same however when you look at the side there is a slight
height difference where the levers are yeah and we thought 25 mil box 25 mil box so let's just have a
little look in the back one here now you can see you see the uh
yeah the earth terminal in the middle there looks quite close to the back of the box well the only
way to actually prove it is to fit one on it yeah so let's take those probably two conventional 2.5
millimeter square cables maybe there's a ring final circuit on a 25mm box and see if you can
dress them back into it so we're looking at next have a look the packet the rapid fix socket comes
in has safety and installation instructions and it's worth reading those first we're going to
need to strip our conductors back to 10 mil which is indicated here on the back of the socket outlet
take my preki stripper that i've set to 10 mil in order to strip these back trying to
make it nice and easy for myself so that's 10 mil we'll confirm it as well so strip them back
once i've got my conductors to the required length i'm just going to check them so confirm they are
10 mil and they are and now it's a simple case of lifting the levers you see the holes
open up to allow the conductors to enter do one more so have a look in there
you don't need to lift all three if you're only inserting one or two conductors
but you do have to lift the lever in order to insert the conductors into the back of the socket
nice simple task now this is really quick so just position your conductors
pop them in i'm going to do my neutrals first i'm going to do both neutrals i know
normally with a socket outlet you do both the conductors at the same time you could do them
individually someone could have done the line next or the cpc but i'm going to do the traditional way
of putting both conductors in first so that's my neutrals connected cpc is just a word of warning
as always to hold on tightly to the conductor and we don't just move the sleeve in forward
in that case you might find that we don't get it inside the clamp so always do a tug test on all
conductors so yeah tug test they're in nice and firmly and it's onto my line conductors
simply pop them in and that'll be connected and it goes back to that firm connection from the
lever i'm not worried about how tight i've got them with the screwdriver so they're in
push them back to the wall next dress them as normal so you just gotta move them around
according to where you think they're gonna sit best and then we can just push it back to the wall
and then just put our screws in and that was in the 25 mil deep box and i had no issues at all
in order to get that done second socket outlet now we'll see the cables now come in from the bottom
the first one came in from the top exactly the same process i'm just going to run through it
quickly once more 10 mil for my conductors lift up my levers i've got three cpc's this time
i've got the fly lead to the back of the box as well so i've lifted up only the
levers i required this time and we're going to start off again with the neutrals push them
firmly into place and close down the lever little tug test once again and the tug test
and that's it it's just a simple process you know we said in the opening we couldn't believe that
it hadn't been done before but it has been done now so take advantage of the fact that you can
have screwless socket outlets in installation and the reliability that they offer one more cpc once
all my conductors are in i'll obviously confirm again that it goes into the back of the 25mm
box this time with the cables coming in from below just my line conductors now to insert
swinging around as you would normally still want it to be neat push it into place and click it down
one more to go and then i'll push them back again dress the cables before doing so as you normally
would making sure you stay away from the screwed areas and just wiggle it back onto the wall
give you a different shot now you can see from above as i screw this one in now
so no issues at all in order to get it back onto the wall just finish it off i think we clearly
see there that was a lot easier than the standard screwed socket outlet and there was no issues with
the 25 mil back box either so how did you find that gary ever so easy dress those cables push it
back into the box no issues at all with the depth for me okay and then we and you did the trial
obviously coming top and bottom most people coming in i don't think there'd be any problems coming to
the sides either um but yeah but faster would you say a lot faster okay and it's the reliability of
the electrical connection i think i've found out over the last couple of weeks when we've been
trialling these is i'm quite aggressive with the way i screw into a socket outlet because of the
and what i'm finding is that i'm actually making a large dent into that copper and of course
you know you take it off the test and you take it off for decorating you take it off and there's a
chance of snapping it whereas i felt those levers obviously were loads quicker but obviously i
haven't got the problem with the amount of torque being put on because the lever does it yeah
exactly how many times have you removed a socket and that just there's a broken are broken in there
because of someone aggressive's been in before causing trouble in the installation yeah i don't
think i can have a product recall for all of the ones i've ever fitted over in my lifetime but also
ring final circuit testing how many times we've been to a consumer unit and an open-ended ring
and have found it's an actual broken conductor i'd like to think personally that these levers will
pretty much remove that because of the torque on obviously the lever when it goes down
yeah so i mean it's branded a rapid fix so i mean one of the major selling points is quicker to
install now obviously don't take gary's word for it he's not the uh not the fastest around here so
we decided to hand it over some tame electricians to see how quickly they could fit this compared to
the existing mk screwed so i could so check out that video when it comes out that's it
that's a that's a treat to watch it is and it's just proving the fact isn't it what we believe the
rapid fix socket from mk honeywell will be faster to install than the standard 13 amp socket outlet
but as always we're interested in your feedback and your comments have you fitted this socket out
there and believe it is quicker are you already a massive fan of a waygo connector and you like
us couldn't believe how long it's taken for them to be introduced the technology behind
them onto the back of a socket outlet and do you think switches will be next and fused connection
units and all the rest of it watch this space go we'll have to see what we can create first
we'll get the pattern pending on the next one but always we're interested
in your comments is it the greatest innovation since the incandescent lamp
leave those comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can