Dan kamsickas
GinSan Technician
We would use the more expensive connectors but you know how cheap some carwash owners are
.WAGO wire connectors
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.LmaoWe would use the more expensive connectors but you know how cheap some carwash owners are
John J Spokas
Active member
I always drill drain holes for junction boxes in the wash environment and try to bend the wires to the top of the interior of the junction box also dielectric grease on the wire nut or the WAGO lever nut, it helps but only a 99% effective solution which is pretty dang good.
jameslandry
New member
mjwalsh
6 bay SS w/laundromat
John Spokas & others,
FWIW ... my humble observation shows that there are times where terminal strips are preferable to any types of wire nuts including Wagos. The size of the control or junction box is a factor of course. What I have found that it is easier to run wires at 90° & 0° angles keeping the wires more orderly in straight lines ... easier also to tie wrap in a more logical way.
Most electricians are not "control wiring" experts & while "from their short term memory" they themselves may be able to "troubleshoot" their own work but ... I am not a fan of coming in later & seeing a "no schematic ... rats nest of wiring". The shadows cast by disordered wires can make our "problem solving 'vewwwwy difficult'" based on actual "not so pleasant of experience!!!
We just got done repositioning (including rearranging conduit) on a14"x12"control box on part of our very intricate boiler system. A boiler system that uses the same modular boilers for both domestic & for actual facility heating purposes. In other words on top of everything else "one of the highest priced electricians in our region did not even have "line of sight" into all the components in the control box! Pipe with pipe insulation was blocking easy finger access & line of sight ... just another sometimes overwhelming "weeee minor little detail". In some ways he was the best electrician that I had experienced ... go figure that out. To his creedit ... he did know how to make relays "dance" logically without resorting to computer chips within PlCs or similar.
FWIW ... my humble observation shows that there are times where terminal strips are preferable to any types of wire nuts including Wagos. The size of the control or junction box is a factor of course. What I have found that it is easier to run wires at 90° & 0° angles keeping the wires more orderly in straight lines ... easier also to tie wrap in a more logical way.
Most electricians are not "control wiring" experts & while "from their short term memory" they themselves may be able to "troubleshoot" their own work but ... I am not a fan of coming in later & seeing a "no schematic ... rats nest of wiring". The shadows cast by disordered wires can make our "problem solving 'vewwwwy difficult'" based on actual "not so pleasant of experience!!!
We just got done repositioning (including rearranging conduit) on a14"x12"control box on part of our very intricate boiler system. A boiler system that uses the same modular boilers for both domestic & for actual facility heating purposes. In other words on top of everything else "one of the highest priced electricians in our region did not even have "line of sight" into all the components in the control box! Pipe with pipe insulation was blocking easy finger access & line of sight ... just another sometimes overwhelming "weeee minor little detail". In some ways he was the best electrician that I had experienced ... go figure that out. To his creedit ... he did know how to make relays "dance" logically without resorting to computer chips within PlCs or similar.
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