we're going to take a look at wago's Topjob S dim rail connectors
well you love a bit of panel building and when i think about panel building i think
about those DIN rail connectors and those endless screws i'm going to have to wind
down onto my conductors yeah you're right yes because you're using the wrong kit
now you've lost a few races that we've featured on the channel before i mean when you start
stuck with your old screwdriver and your old screw terminals where some of the more enlightened panel
builders have moved on to screw-less terminals in the form of the Wago Topjob S and that's
what we'll have a look at today and you've been using screwless connectors in this form
for many many years you've got plenty of years to go back on as well haven't you gordon i have
and yeah this is a fantastic system we're only going to scratch the surface of it today
but if you're stuck in the world of screw terminals let's just have a little look at the
difference between them okay so take me back on the screwed once okay so this is a very
traditional din rail terminal so yeah it obviously fits on the din rail at the bottom and there's our
cage screw terminal so yeah put your wire in tighten the screw up and it tightens down very
familiar to me that one yeah where'd the wago uses the cage clamp technology and obviously being open
sided we can see how that operates so let's take a closer look at how this works with different
conductor types so you're going to start off with a solid conductor then yeah so class one conductor
so yeah a single piece of copper just pushes straight in very easy yeah and it's clear to
see how it works as well isn't it so let's repeat now with a class two so semi-stranded so again
seven individual conductors in there again pushes straight in a little effort step up to a ferrule one
so again these will push straight in might need a little bit more effort because of the flexibility
of the conductor but again no tool needed okay that went in easily yep yeah so the only one
we will need our operating tool with is a fine stranded conductor that isn't feraled yeah yeah
so it's a class five conductor so you can push the operating tool and you see the cage
open you do don't you yeah and then just slides in yeah slides in and twisted them together and then
just yeah pull it out and then clamp shut right well that's them in how you're going to get them
all back out yeah so same process in reverse but you will need to use the operating tool
for each type of conductor so again just push in remove, the conductor repeat the process push in
open the cage clamp and it's just easy yet yeah remove it that's very simple isn't it
yeah very clean operation simple there's not you don't have to lever it it's not a lever not like
some connectors you have to actually move it you're just pushing it in to open up the cage
that was a little bit tricky because in that video you showed me a four conductor connection
point and originally you just showed me a two is there any other variants well there's lots
of variants but you're right one of the advantages of this system is you can get more connections per
way on the din rail so you don't end up having to spread out for miles and miles to make all
those connections so you're right here you've spotted the four-way version which I've got here
so this is like new builds isn't it it's easier to go up than it is go out isn't it it is yeah so
yeah so there's four connections in there it's all common together you can do a three version as well
right um but it doesn't stop there gary it's not just about spreading uh yeah you can also spread
upwards as well so here's a two conductor a two um two pole version right you have two circuits
running through this din rail connector so you can stack them top and bottom so just just show you
that so the top section here is not physically connected to the bottom section is that right
nope that's right yep so that's two individual circuits otherwise you can also go three high and
in this variant they're actually common together with this connection piece down oh wow so that's
awesome so you've got six connecting points there yeah do they make one of these where i could say
stack two two and two without that connecting piece yeah so again you could have that so say
you had a line neutral and earth connection with lots of connections leaving a panel
and yeah that's a great way of saving lots of space it is it is i like that a lot yeah
so you just imagine yeah six connections in a in a single way yeah that is that is yeah that
is really good now we've obviously had a look at them but we haven't seen you build any of these up
yeah so let's have a look at how we actually assemble the various components onto the din rail
so let's start with an essential accessory that a lot of people forget and that's the end stop so
this stops the din rail terminals moving along the din rail itself and it also stops them splitting
apart when you're using them so pretty important but again away go on gary what's missing from
this part there'll be no screws it just clips into position holds in firmly before you insert
your next bit yeah so let's look at the terminals themselves again the thing a lot of people forget
is to put an end cap on so if you don't have an end cap what have you got you could have potential
if that was the line connection obviously live parts that are accessible to touch by putting
the cap on we removed that but as you add more and more into the system you wouldn't need to put them
in wood no it's just the first one so again just clip them into place got some little spigots there
yeah they just nicely click into place and then we can put that on the din rail
and again no screws so just clip straight on as we've just seen yes yeah so again hook it
under one end yeah and then just push onto the din rail nice little click okay yeah yeah into
place start building up our components so yeah the next one doesn't need the end cap oh yeah
so it faces through yeah okay start building up so you may then choose to put on an intermediate
cap so you might want to visually indicate the end of one section of common connectors with another
so you can add an individual one and you can put them in grey or you can use orange so it's very
easily apparent where they are you don't need to do that but it is helpful sometimes when you've
got a mass row of terminals i like that yeah so you can clearly see a subdivision there yeah and
we continue the process on yeah again just build them up and then let's have a look at one for
the uh earth or cpc connection so you notice here this metal clip that's going to connect it to the
to the din rail itself okay so it's earth in the dim rail as we go yeah and then obviously connect
the terminals you want to put in if you have another set of uh
earth connections or CPC connections yeah they're now common together ah right yeah so
so they're actually linked those CPCs together be careful if you obviously had
individual circuits you were testing because they'd obviously be linked together at that
point yeah as well again yes sometimes people make that mistake then another end cap on and
that's going to lock them together so if you don't have that you see they will split apart which
can be a problem especially when you're levering them open okay so that will end the section
that you want to put in here yeah and now can you link together some of these yeah you can
put that in first then you'll think they won't move there nicely tightly punched together yeah
so now you may want to common some of those parts together and it's just these little common links
and there are lots of options for this you can you can have ones that miss out connections so you
can have adjacent or yeah a spanner gap uh between them so they just clip in place so we saw some dim
rail assembly there and you started putting some conductors in so i'm going to bring the camera in
to have a little closer look yeah so again the ferrules you can push directly in the terminal
but i find depending on how thick the wire is it is sometimes just easier to use the operating tool
but it is a really dead easy just push it in push the conductor in and let it close so it's
it's a fast process and the advantage of obviously on a screw on a screw terminal you obviously
haven't pushed the conductor in the side here where it can be difficult to see in there right
actually getting it right in the terminal in fact these are forward-facing you bring the conductor
over the top and in so you're in a panel maybe quite a low panel with that other style you're
almost yeah yeah kind of getting underneath it for all the bottom sections yeah and then obviously
the common points between them on a yes watch the video if you haven't seen it where gary loses
uh a little race even though he's got the latest technology he ends up with a special biscuit
yeah you'll see how much effort it is to put in lots of scrutiny it is
and it is and it's yeah over and over again we're all about making your life easier ethics and we've
seen that that will make our life for the panel builder considerably easier but out the corner
of my eye I can't help but noticing what's going on here yeah i'll get rid of that and then yeah
yeah this is beautiful yeah so i've made up this uh version here to show some of the
breadth of the range and obviously as everyone knows we love a part number and this gives a sort
of idea of the different part number combinations and that's probably the most difficult thing about
this system is the range is immense lots of variants but once you start to get the grips
with it is actually quite easy so here's the ones we've looked at straight away which were
the ones where you either pushed the conductor in and then needed the operating tool to remove them
but with these versions you start to start seeing there's the push the push button okay so slightly
different yeah yeah so to operate that it's a case of yeah just starting with the operating tool yeah
well obviously solids are semi strengthen it very easily and push them straight in
but if i want to remove it i just push down the push button and it comes out so that's one option
the other one is we've got a lever connection here like a lever lift the lever so again very simple
push in and close so these are great options so imagine you've built a panel a lot of the wiring
for panel takes place in the factory in a workshop environment you do all your interconnections there
it's sometimes good to be able to differentiate between the connections you've made in the factory
and the ones where the customer gets the gets the hands into so they don't necessarily stray into
areas you'd rather that didn't yeah so perhaps those levers are for the incoming supply maybe
the pushed sections would be for perhaps the machinery they need to add into the panel
and maybe all your connections would use that that tool that isn't a screwdriver what is it called
it's this is an operating tool yeah so don't get confused it's not a screwdriver yeah and that's
what we've got here so obviously you can have ones with you know a lever operation on either side a
push button operation on either side but when you get further up the range you can have variants
where it's a lever on one side and the either the push button or the uh use of the operating slot
on the other so what you've got here so we've got these big these cables here i'll take it
with 16 millimeter square to conductors we don't want to get into the part numbers but there is a
thing about the the zero digit there being this the second one from this uh right hand side that
is a zero so is that up to one mil cable shield so this starts at up to one millimeter cables
then we step up to 1.5 millimeter cable okay two is 2.5 millimeter cables underneath here
there's a little test plug in there it's four millimeter 6 10 16. okay just to correct myself
then so it's actually the this n digit here isn't it it's the end digit that we're working with
so if it's a zero it's up to one mil well we've got one it's one five yeah two five okay and
we go on i apologize for that yeah uh that's what gives you a clue as to the the variance
in the part numbers um but yeah that's just but that is just literally the start of the options
this can make life very easy if you're building panels and you talked about yeah the ability to
put adapters in there to for test points etc as well didn't you yeah so we've got these uh
common links that we showed uh earlier to common adjacent connectors but you can have ones that
that obviously stretch between different poles okay so i'm just going to pull that out yeah
yeah so you'll see right okay yeah so that didn't bridge side by side it bridged some distance
away from it yeah so say you wanted to set up arrangements where it's you know line neutral cpc
yeah you can you can bridge over connections you can bridge between different sizes so say you want
to do some power distribution bringing a larger size conductor in here then branching down to
smaller size conductors for possibly distribution to circuit breakers or something like that you can
do there and this is a test point yeah so you've got test points and you've also got the cable
points so say if you want to common between say a connector even on a different row you can connect
that from the top and perform a common function up to there or yeah bring in this handy test adapter
yeah it really does make life uh incredibly easy that's what we go do though isn't it
there's a lot to go at and we're only scratching the surface on this top job s range aren't we
yeah it is yeah the the variants in there oh yeah immense and you know obviously experienced panel
builders and oh yeah we've been using this for years obviously, we see a lot of people
just branching out into din rail terminals perhaps they're building up a special junction box or some
heating controls or something like that and still stuck in the world of uh screws connectors but
trust me the most difficult thing about this range is the number of part numbers and even i made a
small letter on it you're going through it as well so it's easily done but i think once you've
mastered it and it won't take long to master it when you're actually using it all the time
the benefits of using the top job s range from waygo or vargo depending on how you want to say it
goes beyond comparison and yeah i'm just about to say and you've been using it
i have yes so just to turn it into a practical example and we'll look at this in another video
this is another one we've made up uh an example here how we've used it say possibly you want to
make an s plan control system in a waterproof environment in a way i've got some fantastic
products for the indoor environment that we've shown before we thought we'll just make up an
example to show you how we use it so watch out for that video and we've thought of that
S plan heating system on in several videos on the channel so again if you haven't seen all of those
it's worth checking it out and i i believe you've you've really condensed down what we've seen on a
much larger scale in other videos could have gone for a smaller box yeah well yeah we'll come across
that when we do that video as well so so look out well i wouldn't suggest it's worth watching
the race obviously that we did yeah okay i'm sure you think it is and the gary baldy biscuit there
has got a little story in that video as well we've obviously made a video where we've converted the s
plan system that you've seen before but this time using these top job s connectors for wago okay and
the advantage of using on this dim rail system but as always we're interested in your feedback
are you currently using a system for your dim rail connectors that we haven't heard about leave the
comments below are you using these ones from huego or vargo however you want to say it and you think
they're amazing and there's an absolute gem in the range that we haven't mentioned and I'm sure
there will be because there's lots of stuff that we haven't touched on in this video but we will in
future videos leave all those comments below and gordon will try and get back to as many as he can