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    Wiring!

    I'm just wiring a plug onto my new grow light and the cables have little gold coloured metal clamps around the copper wires.

    Can I leave those on and pop them in the plug or do I need to cut them off and twist the copper wires instead?

    The last one I did din't have these!

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    If they will go in the holes, leave them on Vikki otherwise just cut them off.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
      If they will go in the holes, leave them on Vikki otherwise just cut them off.
      They will certainly fit!

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      • #4
        Yes deffo leave the crimps on unless you need to shorten the flex for any reason,the crimps are there to prevent the strands of wire from being cut by the screw in the plug terminal when it is being tightened
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        • #5
          yes, they are called Ferrules

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          • #6
            Originally posted by chilli_grower View Post
            yes, they are called Ferrules

            best cut them off & send back to Aus' before she notices they are missing
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            • #7
              Originally posted by chilli_grower View Post
              yes, they are called Ferrules

              They are called many things,but the correct term (with regard to electrical installation) is through crimps Ferrules where I come from are fitted on the end of walking sticks
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              • #8
                Honestly BB, some people will stick at nothing...! You're crimping the Vine's style of humour...
                But then again, obviously we were all at a loose end, it's no shock really.
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                • #9
                  ^^ nutter ^^
                  Last edited by bearded bloke; 10-03-2013, 03:35 PM.
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                  • #10
                    actually, they are bootlace ferrules.

                    I am a fully qualified sparky for the last 12 years

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                    • #11
                      I was just thinking that ferrules were/are the little plastic thingies that stop laces from fraying

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                      • #12
                        yes, pretty much.

                        However, for some weird reason I know that the end of a shoelace is called an 'Aglet'

                        I think I heard that on the eggheads!?!?!?!?

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                        • #13
                          I was just thinking that ferrules were/are the little plastic thingies that stop laces from fraying
                          Well...as one bootlace said to the other, "I'm a frayed knot"...

                          However, for some weird reason I know that the end of a shoelace is called an 'Aglet
                          Yes, it's the aglet truth, chilligrower !
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                          • #14
                            Yay! for random trivia

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                            • #15
                              no more trivia from more, that is pretty much all I know!!!

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