I have the great pleasure of being joined today by Marcus please do not panic Joe is on a
well-deserved holiday here and what we're going to be looking at today Marcus today guys we're gonna
look at a different series of Wago connectors Wago yet i've watching videos I am an expert now to
pronounce now we know in Germany they pronounce it Wago UK generally we're pronouncing it Wago
we probably will throughout the presentation yeah we will we're going to look at in this
presentation the 221 yeah and the 222 connectors yeah and we're going to look at the different
design aspects of it how its moved forward in regards to its size etcetera Michael Lane also
asked me to clarify on camera because not a lot of people know this I'm sure that would be his quote
is that actually on the two two ones we've got two different voltage and ranges and two different
current range area sides and later on in the video we're just going to clarify which one he's going
to be used for Europe on which one's gonna be use for Japan also in this video presentation
you're going to show me how on things like the 773 push-fit connectors how easy it is to remove the
conductors yeah just a simple twist and pull so we don't have to be throwing them away in the future
early days when they came out I was pushing me and then just cutting a lot of chucking them away
we all did the same yeah especially the college where we're going to reuse connectors everywhere
and now just quickly ask Gary what's the green about my green yeah
well I'm sure they know out there that I've gone red yeah but I had the great pleasure of
sending a photograph out on social media wearing blue tops and when I was teasing out the red
Wago came back to me with their lovely green color and it made me look yeah that was not very it was
a very nice gesture from Wago so no I've not gone green I was clarifying for having owned red yeah
okay so let's bring the camera in and let's have a look at what we've got in front of us
so Marcus brought the camera in nice and close and we're going to look at the comparison between
the new 221 series compared to the original 222 series can you talk about some of the things that
have gone on there yes so as you can clearly see Gaz with the new 221 is now transparent so the
back of this here is transparent yes so you can clearly see the connections and also the size
is actually 40% smaller so as we've moved from the original 222 series down to the 221 they've
actually reduced the size down by 40% yes have you okay thank you okay then Marcus we've got another
cleverly designed piece of kit by Wago and what we've got here yes a way going back to brought out
a mounting carrier for the 221 series okay so we just popped in a two conductor connector like so
yeah I'd be using one of these so maybe we won't get no loop in terminals say a fluorescent light
fitting this can be mounted onto the base of the light fitting and then the connector placed in
and use them as a normal loop in terminal so it means that the actual connection won't be
floating around inside the frosting life and yeah definitely yeah don't fantastic okay there Marcus
on the 221 2 conductor connector on one side I've got 20 amps and 300 volts what's that for
yes so when we talked about earlier he's going to clarify the different ranges on these connectors
the 20 amps and 300 volts on this side of the two-two-one is actually relating to the ranges for
Japan okay thank you so I've turned around Marcus and now I've got 450 volts and 32 amps on this
side what does that relate to so that now relates to what we're going to be using in Europe and
Michael Lane asked us to clarify this because this is causing somewhat of a confusion between
which range we should actually be following so we're in Europe during the 450 32 amps
on the other side it's related to Japan yeah that's correct yet thank you Marcus
so Marcus now I can say with some confidence the side that states 20 amps and 300 volts is
related to Japan however the conductor length underneath that I would need to strip it is
there and set at 11 mm as we can see I've done on this neutral conductor so Marcus with these two
neutral conductors stripped back to 11 mm we can see again how easy it is to insert them into the
connector and close down the levers is there any other types with yes so as well as solid it can
also deal with stranded and fine stranded up to a maximum cross section where four millimeters
squared okay okay then Marcus can you show me how easy it is to push a conductor into
the 773 star WAGO connectors for me yeah this is just to push fit you just simply
push the conductor in and you can see that it's made the connection in there however I wanted it
to be a line conductor and not in neutral can you can't no one out for me place okay are we going to
snip it and chuck it away hopefully not you know how easy it is to get there just twist and pull
and they would simply come out okay if you want to put the line conductor in for me please yeah
same principle again can you show us once again how to get that out yeah you're just
gonna twist and pull and then they will come out thank you very much so before we finish
off there Marcus can you just show me where the testing points are on both the 222 and the 221
Wago connectors please yeah so on the 222 you can see the testing point is there on the top okay and
on the newer 221 actually has two testing points so we have one on the back now yeah and also just
under the lever we have another one there okay so we've got two in the new style ones just brilliant
thank you so Marcus the whole world is fully aware how clever the technology is behind this design of
Wago connectors the 221 anything about them you really like yes I like the fact that they've now
introduced that second testing point so just makes it more convenient when you're testing really
I like the fact that introduces little carrier as well we talked about on camera didn't we about
you know looping terminals in inflorescent light fittings they're missing that you can actually
secure your new connection yes oh yeah thank you very much also for clarifying how easy it is with
the push for it that's a 773 you showed us on for the select few that may not have already seen out
to do that it just saves you throwing them away now okay so that was a nice little tutorial as
well so we'd like to thank Michael Lane from Wago for identifying this as well about the voltages
and we hope that up in the video as well that the the lower voltage on them is for the Japan
and the higher voltage the 450 and 32 amps is actually for Europe okay so let's end it
there much yes so let's go so it's trial this time so we hope this video has been some help