Connectors for small gauge wire.

Maplins offer a range of cable mounted plugs and enclosure mounted sockets 2 to 8 pins solder connections. Mind you they can be fiddly to solder onto.

I have used these to marry up the snakes wedding group for my C120 plotter, TV aerial supply, VHF DSC, AIS data, Garmin GPS. By using different pin plugs it is not possible to plug the individual devices into the wrong socket.

The internal connection is simply chocolate block, but all connections are bootlace ferruled.

I do wish all makers would standardise colours for specific functions.
 
tudorsailor said:
Further searching, found a 3 way. Have ordered a pack of 5 to try

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/non-fused-terminal-blocks/0815880/?origin=PSF_435792|rel

TudorSailor
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To reply to my own post....

3 way connectors have arrived. 3 way.JPG
Takes quite a lot of squeeze to open the hole. Best to press down with a screwdriver onto a hard surface. Once in, the wire will never come out! So good for the home with live neutral and earth in line. Less sure about the boat. Will probably use the ones with the orange flip up levers for 12v connections in hard to reach places. Also very firm connection, but a tad easier to insert wire 2 way.JPG

TudorSailor
 
tudorsailor said:
To reply to my own post....

3 way connectors have arrived. View attachment 61671
Takes quite a lot of squeeze to open the hole. Best to press down with a screwdriver onto a hard surface. Once in, the wire will never come out! So good for the home with live neutral and earth in line. Less sure about the boat. Will probably use the ones with the orange flip up levers for 12v connections in hard to reach places. Also very firm connection, but a tad easier to insert wire View attachment 61672

TudorSailor
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Yes, they really need to be on a firm surface and have screw holes at each end so I fixed my 12-way to a bulkhead before fitting the wires - but then an excellent grip as you say (until you press the button in again, of course). How may the orange lever type be fixed?
 
Hydrozoan said:
Yes, they really need to be on a firm surface and have screw holes at each end so I fixed my 12-way to a bulkhead before fitting the wires - but then an excellent grip as you say (until you press the button in again, of course). How may the orange lever type be fixed?
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The little ones with orange lever come with 2,3 or 5 orifices. There is no way to fix them . They are nice and small and can be stuffed into a tiny space. You can buy little gel filled boxes and put the connector inside to make a water resistant connection. Making a connection with the tiny one with the orange lever, is much easier than screwing down a choc strip screw at a difficult angle. I wish the two pole in line rather than side by side

TudorSailor
 
tudorsailor said:
The little ones with orange lever come with 2,3 or 5 orifices. There is no way to fix them . They are nice and small and can be stuffed into a tiny space. You can buy little gel filled boxes and put the connector inside to make a water resistant connection. Making a connection with the tiny one with the orange lever, is much easier than screwing down a choc strip screw at a difficult angle. I wish the two pole in line rather than side by side

TudorSailor
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Thanks - that's fine for the 'odd' connection but if you have a number, the ability to fix the block is helpful, and the pressure issue then much less important. IIRC WAGO did do 'boxes' for the other orange lever type (the ones with grey bodies) but they were for a limited number in a 'mains' connection scenario. I'll try to find it.
 
Please pardon my being slow in understanding.

Am I correct in saying that the orange lever WAGO 5-way are like little 'bus-bars' (all wires are joined) while the 12-way type mentioned by Hydrozoan are a form of 'choc-block' (only opposite wires are joined)?

A long-overdue exercise on my boat is to try and make the wiring less of a nest belonging to a mad cow and I am after a system that will be easy to rig up.

Thanks.
 
PuffTheMagicDragon said:
Please pardon my being slow in understanding.

Am I correct in saying that the orange lever WAGO 5-way are like little 'bus-bars' (all wires are joined) while the 12-way type mentioned by Hydrozoan are a form of 'choc-block' (only opposite wires are joined)?

A long-overdue exercise on my boat is to try and make the wiring less of a nest belonging to a mad cow and I am after a system that will be easy to rig up.

Thanks.
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Exactly. The ones with 2,3 or 5 orange levers are all joined, so a good way to split one supply into two.

The ones with white push down things that come in 3,4,6 and 12 are choc-box like so opposite wires joining.

TudorSailor
 
Norman_E said:
This site shows the very useful socket to D9 adapters. http://www.cablemonkey.co.uk/46-cat...DGr7FxFLDTk5jgovXObuVsbvQREdZce04PhoCJ43w_wcB
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Those are nice and do save soldering.

For connecting any multi strand wires especially the smaller side you need a terminal block that has a leaf spring between the screw and the wire like these

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The DIN rail type terminal blocks also don't have the screw bearing on the wire but also allow proper mounting ans wire support. These also allow terminales to be added into a line without too much disturbance or the existing wiring.

Weidmuller-SAK-EN-Terminal-Blocks.jpg


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All different types and colours. fused, disconnects and multi stacked with all different current rating. Thesa can also be bridged to common or buss bar type connections.
 
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