Was dead set against using WAGOs on a house I rewired last month, now I kind of get the hype

I've always twisted and taped everything because that's how old timers taught me, but I finally tried WAGOs on a 12 outlet kitchen circuit in Austin and it saved me like an hour of work. The connections felt solid and held up fine on a 20 amp breaker test. Has anyone else switched over and found a downside I'm missing?

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paul25125d ago

Have you tried pulling one out after a few months to see if the wire gets chewed up? That's the thing nobody talks about with WAGOs. I did a service call last year where the homeowner had used them on some outdoor lights and when I pulled one off, the copper had this weird scoring from the spring clip. It wasn't loose or anything but it made me nervous about long term vibration damage. On a kitchen circuit inside the house you're probably fine, but I still don't trust them on anything that gets shaken around like ceiling fans or garage door openers. Just something to keep an eye on if you start using them everywhere.

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blake32225d ago

That scoring thing happens with a lot of push-in connectors, not just WAGOs. It's the same principle as why people still use wire nuts on stuff that vibrates, old school is sometimes safer for the weird edge cases.