today we're going to look at the Fred from Raytech
again okay then before we get to this which we think solves a problem you've
got something else for your chest yeah well a few things that irritate me
along with this gordon yeah okay on surface wiring you know you've got a nice property and someone's
cluttered it with conduit and junction boxes and things like that now obviously there's certain
instances where you can't avoid that but i like to minimize that if at all possible so we think that
this can maybe tidy up those installations along with our cable selection and what cable did we
select Gordon yeah so we've got uh yeah NYY cable which again we think is quite an underused cable
uh in this country yeah i like to sort of it's it's armored cable without the armor so check out
our video on that but you know pretty similar to using i would say a pvc conduit as we saw on that
earlier installation let's see the one that I've produced behind us then so this is what we've got
we're coming out of the fox box which we've done in a previous video i've come down to the short
runner cable obviously for the point then we've got the thread and from the Fred we've got the
ability to flex into a light fitting and that's a really neat installation we believe don't we
gordon yeah it is especially we coupled it with some linen fire clips yeah okay we've got here
which again when you fix that with this narrow diameter cable yeah so we're just we're just under
10 millimeters across for that gives them all this invisible fixing yeah almost a visible fix and i
think that creates a lot tidier installation okay so let's come back to fred as we've left him now
so Fred here we're gonna have a closer look and I know exactly what you're gonna do straight away
so let's have a look at this waterproof enclosure easy here we come so in we come what are you gonna
do first oh my god stick your fingers straight into the ectoplasm yeah okay for those so I've
got the gel and again the gel stops the ingress of water through cables okay we did speak about
in our review of the fox box okay yeah we did on the fox box yeah so what we've got here then
is we've got this waterproof gel in order that we can make our connection for our nyy and our flex
in there it comes with some bits in the box so they're here so you so you have a normal connector
yes uh which you have people immediately gonna be saying oh we want to use Wago's well we'll watch
out for an unearthed video on that to see if you can actually do that yeah and it's obviously got
these locking rings as well so you don't actually need a cable gland with this because obviously
the box itself the gel is providing the IP rating these are just for should we say strain release
they are and when you talk about like be right in gordon what is the ip rating of the thread so
these are dual ip rated high Ip68 which is suitable using water fully immersed in water and IP69 which
again is hot jets of water so possibly something in a food environment we're possibly cleaning down
uh you know areas on a regular basis so what we'll do is we've got a shortened version of me
making the connections off this and we'll talk you through those as we go so the thread itself needs
the splits in top and bottom which we showed previously when we looked at the fox box we've
got to split the plastic on both sides the cable itself comes into the box 25 mil conductor length
and six mil of insulation removed and we connect those up you notice we're making the connections
gordon not inside the enclosure all right so you're doing yeah you do all your prep before you
even introduce it to the box itself yeah that we got our gland uh nuts on as well so you notice it
there on the flex for the actual uh light fin i've feraled my ends i'd never forget that no no no no
take four and then we connect those up okay so we've got those and then we introduce our thread
squeeze it into position so remember we're just gonna squeeze it together and click it into
position and then we just lock off our nuts both top and bottom now it's a bit of clarity there as
i've obviously caught my finger at some point so we lock those off and then we're nicely ip rated
there there's our finished product and then we just put a few more of those fire clips in
yeah that's a neat install now just i don't know if you want to bring the camera here but
just so i can get a hand scale here that's a tiny flood light it is a tiny flood light and that's a
tiny connection okay that is a tiny box yes you've used the clips yeah you use the clip stop securely
cable around that makes a very very tidy install yeah almost almost invisible yeah we like that
don't we yeah perhaps it would be nice to see one fixing on the box itself but again those
clips we're using there held it really firmly in place they have yeah so we've got the IP rating
we've got a very small enclosure um we've got an unearth now that suggests whether we can or can't
get vargo or wago connectors whatever you want inside the actual fitting box itself i'm not so
i'm not so keen as you are on that but you think they can go in anything else you want to pick
up uh well obviously the scenario you could have is where you've got a flood light and possibly a
separate pir okay or another float line maybe yeah or yes sparing off to another floodlight so they
do have a this y version or a three-way version of it okay yeah that comes with this allen head
uh screw uh terminal blocks there right obviously the first thing why i went to keene on the way if
you're going to put a pi on you're going to need a fourth terminal for that switch live um so that
would drop in there but obviously if you yeah if you needed an extra switching term you'd have to
add another terminal um but this has got yeah it's the same principle and yeah it just latches shut
and you can open them again yeah you can yeah open them up and get back in there pull out your
connections and go again i think they're good yeah i mean that is a yeah they're fit for purpose is
what we like here so i fit the little thread the through if you want to call it though so in order
to make my connections from an NYY cable and an outside light but we're always interested in your
comments what's your go-to box when making similar connections on the outside of a building say for
floodlights etc please leave those comments below and we'll get back to as many as we can