it's fantastic to get out on site as well as being joined by joe today i'm here to see
Matt from MJ Electrical Services who's wired the wonderful properties around us absolutely and you
may remember seeing that on a previous couple of videos that we made one where we installed a tesla
charger which was really interesting and also an AFDD board which we enjoyed greatly as well
but in this video we're going to be installing and reviewing the Debox connectors range from Hylec
so i think it's about time we got inside and had a
look at what we're doing in this video if we're going inside time to put the t on
so we've managed to nip inside now and we've come into the only room in the entire property
that has a heater and we're here with Harry who's been working for MJ Electrical and he's
actually been running this entire site of four properties uh looking after the
electrical installation how you doing today Harry i'm all good good thank you very much
excellent and what are we going to be fitting in this first segment here we're going to be
fitting the Hylec Debox yeah on this spotlight excellent and of course this is the first of a few
different types of this junction box that we're going to be installing yeah and what are the
connections like inside that what have we got in there we've just got a four-way connector block
excellent so this is a screwed type yeah excellent very good and of course a perfect situation
because we can terminate the cables into that junction box pop it up into the ceiling yeah and
fit the spotlight away good stuff excellent let's crack on so obviously we're just stripping the
cables here then Harry so uh using the mechanical strippers there not not favoring the knife or the
or the side cutters method it's a lot quicker and easier it's good i find yeah i always like
how it gives that nice clean finish on the end of the sheet there it definitely does
definitely go for the uh the cheese cutting method where you pull the
CPC through the insulation because no doubt we would be getting comments if we did that
and i can't help but notice that you're using croppers there as well rather than side cutters
so there seems to be an endless debate on social media about which is better why are you favoring
the croppers a lot easier to work with my hands a lot easier to hold and it's just just what i'm
used to now you've demonstrated another really nice neat little feature of the Debox S there
Harry because you've taken the connector out of the box which is really good because it means that
you're not kind of playing about with the box in the way you can just get that out
and get the conductors terminated into it and you're ready to go which is really nice
making sure that we hadn't nicked that copper so it didn't snap when it went into the terminal
excellent and we've got a four-way block in there which is obviously helpful if perhaps you're
using the loop-in method of the wiring at this point you know maybe if this is the first one
we've got four downlights in this room and if we'd brought the permanent line neutral
to the first light fitting and then down to the switch that would be handy looks like these are
uh wired with the the line and neutral at the switch though in this case is that right so
you're not worrying about the too many cables which is good
that's kind of properly rapid you're settling into this now aren't you Harry
i'm getting a lot more comfortable now being on camera just trying to ignore the camera
it's difficult because from my point of view it's kind of between you and your work so
you're doing very well if you can do that yeah so i'm happy they're all secure always worth
giving them a quick tug to make sure they're in place top tip very good and then that just
pushes back onto that little nib there yeah and uh flat very good nice and then when you close
that clamp up i notice there's no screw on there is that helpful not having a screw on the clamp
it's one less thing so time-wise it's better but you do need to check that obviously they
are secure yeah make sure it's gripping down there yeah so what we'll do we'll now get the spotlight
excellent so we're putting in the connections for the spotlight now the rest of the place for easy
fit in very nice nice you obviously clamp down with your thumb to make sure they stay in place
excellent and again it's nice and adaptable this box isn't it because
you know you could have you've got two different kinds of cable coming in and
out a different number on each side and that cable grip again that's going to clamp down to
different thicknesses of cable which is really helpful and obviously again check for tightness
yeah so we've got three clicks on that one and that's got that nice and tight
really good and again when you close up the outside really nice is that you've got
it just clips closed doesn't it so you've not got a tool again to worry about and then you've got
the lock in very pinned just for that extra bit of security now obviously this isn't a maintenance
free kinetics it's got the screw terminals but perfectly suitable for the situation that we're
installing here nice work now we're installing pretty much the exact same enclosure here Harry
but what's different about what's inside the enclosure this time these are push fit connectors
and we love a push fit connection because again it takes that one extra bit of work out of the
process and what about getting them out because obviously it's a bit of a nightmare with the these
terminals isn't it when you want to remove it with them with the push oh nice and they stretch down
yeah just whip out like that lovely really good excellent so again we're sort of heading closer to
a bit of a maintenance-free connection here aren't we with the push fit terminals the screwless which
is good and once we've got those conductors in there we're actually in the exact same position
that we were a moment ago where it's just a matter of getting those cables into the cord grip
and now we'll make the connection for the spotlight and again just a slightly different
connection method here harry so what you're having to do to get these ones push down the
button instead of just straight in so we need to push that to open up the connector to get
obviously the conductor in very good and of course we've got a flexible conductor here instead and
they've got ferals on the end there but if they didn't have that terminal would accommodate it
anyway so yeah so it's not a problem excellent now just before we move on from here if we look in the
lid of the box here you can see there's two kind of little circular indents there and of course
if we were installing this onto a surface with the cables running and out we'd be using those
for fixing purposes when we said screw that bit down and then close the lid over and again you've
got that lovely enclosed connection so we'll box that one up and that's another one done
so we'll keep the connectors fitted into the box excellent now i noticed that we're on the end of
the circuit here Harry so we've got the the last cable so we're down to just one cable so
what's the sort of advantage of the box that you're installing here it's a lot smaller
so we can always use that for obviously smaller holes in the ceiling so more decorative lights oh
brilliant yeah so it means that obviously we can fit these straight up but the only thing will be
is obviously two cables going in yeah could be more difficult to use the smaller box for
single cables yeah very good so again you know you don't need to waste that larger
box where you've only got one cable coming in obviously it will accommodate a couple
of cables which is really good so that's really good so this is the Hylex Debox SM
so this is the smaller version with the the screwed connectors again and like you say you
know perfect for where you've just got the one cable might as well use it for that and also
as you said sometimes you get those really small spotlights that have the tiny cut out
holes in and trying to get a larger junction box in the electricians of a certain age will remember
the old round brown junction boxes and you had to sort of cut a slot into the uh the ceiling to get
them through a tiny hole we've got that problem here which is really good so just finish those
terminations off and again we've got all the same features that we had before which is brilliant use
of tools is minimized and we've also got the cord grips which will clamp down onto various sizes
of conductor and cable as well even accommodate round flexes as well which is really good that's
a nice feature as well if that's what you're using to go out to your spotlight snapshot
and we noticed in the cable entries earlier you've got a little kind of slit in the the
entry part which just adapts itself around the cables that you're installing which is handy
and pop the little retaining pin in keep that lid securely closed
nice neat little connection that okay so we're moving on to our final joint box now and this is
which connection box here harry it's the Debox SL2 nice very good so the major difference in this
one of course is that we've got these lever style connectors in here which obviously we uh we love a
lever style connector here at eFIXX because they make electricians lives easier and of course this
is one of the things that's going to help to make this connection box maintenance free and of course
this style of connector can be used in a couple of different ways you can lift the lever up as you
demonstrated there Harry and put the conductors in and then close the levers down and that grips on
there but of course you can also just use them directly by pushing them in without having to
mess around with the lever at all which is really good literally just push them straight in there
very good and that's the connection made nice and simple very good so again showing the versatility
of the box here is is nice as well so we can actually take those connectors out of the box
and install them separately as we do in here or you can leave them in the box and just
use that pushing facility if you want which is obviously we make sure the conductors are to the
end very nice we can see them and again at this point because we're on the flexible conductor it's
a little bit easier to use the lever function on here and of course we're only using three of the
connections in this case because this is probably a little bit overkill for this uh application here
but it's a nice demonstration of what it can do and uh what we're gonna have a think about
as well is that you don't just have those three connector blocks inside here you've actually got
five connector blocks so we could do a three plate light fit in here quite easily and and
have a spare terminal as well perhaps if we've got a couple of switch lives or something like
that going on and again just to illustrate it is a little bit overkill these are actually 32 amp
uh rated terminals which is obviously a lot more than we need for a lighting circuit which is good
and again we've got this nice it's a slightly different type of cable retention in this case
because we've got the cables just going into those grips there so we're just pressing the cables into
place we don't have to push that little clicky thing down like we did earlier very good they're
all nicely seated back in the relevant places and because Harry's a nice chap he's going to
leave that connector block in there for the next person who comes along as well if they need it
and then once again it's just a matter of closing it up you've got the little ceiling pin and
actually i don't know if we managed to catch that on the inside of the lid it's actually a spare one
of those as well so that when you've opened it up if that pin gets damaged just there got a spare
pin for future reference as well which is handy they seem to disappear quite early on there Gary
there's no sight of it during that video what happened spent a lot of time in that kitchen
i've had enough cup of teas to last me a week absolutely i'm sure you noticed in the kitchen
around the rest of the house all those spotlights which were making the property look absolutely
fantastic and we also saw during this video that no matter what the connecting situation the
Hylec Debox range seems to provide a solution for that yeah and as always we're interested in your
feedback please leave those in the comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can