last year on social media we posted out an image of a 13 amp socket which we'd
cunningly placed some Wago 221's on the back of to somehow suggest this
was the direction that wiring accessories might head
so gary what was the feedback like on that? mixed and a little bit
controversial so we put it into the cupboard about 12 months ago you've now
brought it back out what's your thinking behind that
well recently on the channel we've been looking at a lot of products that have
screwless connectors in them such as the JCC Skypack QR
what was the feedback like on that Gary it was fantastic
quick to install easy to remove the conductors and save the electrician's
time and you know we love that efix so the question we're posing today is
when will we see screwless terminals on the back of wiring accessories
well you've given me a socket outlet here that i think was purchased from one
of those companies that's springing up all over the place
and offer you a click and collect service and believe it or not
this cost slightly less than the two donuts we've already eaten
yeah they are delicious perhaps that's first part of the problem gary is price
because these three Wago connectors i have here
probably cost the same of one of the donuts in the box and it's the question
of will people pay that extra to have the time saving feature
okay so that's one argument the other argument has got to be the conductors
that can go into the back of the socket outlet so i could probably get
two four millimeter squared cables in comfortably because it fits an
a2 radial circuit specifications okay now suspect there's something buried in
BS1363 I'm sure everyone has a copy of it
that prevents us from having screwless terminals so perhaps we're putting that
out there the people in the industry who make sockets to come
back at us and tell us the reason we can't have them you've probably got a
head of the storm so i can see you've attached a three
a three and a three to accommodate your connections any feedback on that the
feedback we had was obviously an additional terminal for the cpc just so
you could put that controversial lead to the back box
okay so we're talking that your socket outlet in concept will accommodate the
cables of a standard 13 amp socket outlet
with your one but as i look over it your cable is being stripped here and my
cable is being stripped here i've got a funny feeling you're luring me into a
race gordon well i asked gary because another video i'm making i've had to
explore the world of german electrical accessories
and on another online retailer that offers free next air delivery
i found a product from jung which incidentally is the circuit breaker
popping out noise you get when you work with gary a lot of the time
but this one has screwless terminals already oh right okay and
is that from germany as well as these Wago connectors it certainly is
germans ahead of us head of the game already doing it so i thought we'd
better take a closer look i'm not convinced
this is a level playing field so i'm going to open up
mine just so i am going to do that yeah yours is all ready to go i see
right so terminated ends so i've got doubled over ends you've got singled
ends i see there's that what yours requires that's what it requires
i'll strip to the lens a handy little length indicator on the front of this
metal panel notice the surround is missing from the
socket that's a separate accessory in germany but the race is all about can
we get the cables in the back of it and terminate them
because we're going to see if this one saves electrician's time or the standard
socket outlet yeah okay that's fine so my ends are
ready to go your ends are ready to go so it's just a case of
i suppose you don't need a tool do you i've got to take the screw out the front
cover slightly different concept here right
okay let's just give me a second look at that
now i've just got to check yeah
this is a quality socket you're dealing with here they're not backed out of
course they're not okay so we do ready steady and then we
go okay right go okay so
neutral first undo the screw from this while gary's messing around with that
he's backing out these screws you'll notice in here there's just these
little push terminals so i just push that down so we're pushing morning
so that one goes nicely in there let's put the cpc
in there let's put the neutral connection in there and repeat
for the second right i'm nearly done yeah usually when
these races are rapid gas and nope er sleeping slipped off there
oh no that wouldn't happen in germany they
don't have it they don't have it so come on really
back that one off enough and there we go that's comfortably done there so
while gary's messing with that oh one of these donuts hmm they look delicious
gary donuts hey i love donuts
how are you doing there well the screw it keeps slipping out okay that's the
line yeah i've just got time to split my cpc's
doing a nice job there this is delicious yeah i bet it is
actually i can put the front cover back in there yeah
okay i've put my donut down i think the race was to prove
the connections are quicker which i think you probably can comfortably say
you did come back on that little screw in the
middle there you'll be okay how's it going
yeah okay all done okay but again from my point of view
i've done that to the tightness that i require personally and we know don't we
how we talk about torque settings in consumer units and distribution boards
actually by using a levered connection the torque's
already been set so we can suggest the same there that that's gone in and
that's at the required terminating talk of pushing connection so that's
could be the future couldn't it is the vargo two two ones or where you go what
if you want to say the future of the connections on the back of the 13 amp
socket outlet i certainly think so just in case who's
going to be first and we like things that save
electricians time and we love your comments
so please make sure you make those comments below let's start the
discussion is a connector of this style push fit or
otherwise the way forward for the humble 13 amp
socket outlet