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Originally Posted by MPaulHolmes
OK now I need help finding a terminal block that has 10 positions. Maybe screws on the inside, so the screw head clamps a u shaped terminal attached to the wire, and similar for the outside. Is that confusing?! All the terminal blocks I've found only show one side, and I have no idea what's on the other side! anger! Or they just sandwich a wire down by screwing a screw, but I've found those to be very unreliable with stranded wire. It comes loose all the time on my milling machine setup.
Or I could solder one side, and just a screw terminal on the other side. Oh the humanity!
EDIT: NEVER MIND!!! I found something I think will be OK.
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The terminals that we use (day job) in a vibration environment (like a car?) have springs and jaws. The wires push into the jaws and are pressed against the terminal jaws. Some 120V receptacles use this same method. Our electricians don't like these terminals. They are difficult to take apart, and the bases are a bit cheesy - the clips break off pretty easily.
Stranded cable 'relaxes' when used in screw-down terminals. We normally re-torque terminals about a month after commissioning new equipment (if we don't use the spring clamp terminals). Then they are re-torqued about 6 months after that. And then we have a PM to check the torque every year.
What gauge cable do you need the terminals to accept? I can look up the vendor and the part numbers from our warehouse.
If the cables are large enough to require lugs, nordloc washers on the bolts work pretty well but the they still need to be re-torqued .. a lot less often.