Thomas Nagy reviews the Quickwire Junction Box
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- In this product review, Thomas Nagy shows us how easy it is to use the Quickwire junction box.
Thomas also shows us how it measures up against traditional junction boxes.
Quickwire is amazing and super quick to use. MF makes this a no-brainer. We have used these on several jobs. Nice one Thomas.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Julian!
I got the box with the cutter, while I'm only doing my own home, replacing ceiling lights, these are really really good, only a moron would wire it wrong.
Ripped out old round junction boxes I remembered took way over 10minutes to wire whilst in a loft sweating.
The quickwire I stuck into the a 72mm hole and no need to worry. Also, they also have clips to hold against a joist, personally should come with the item as it's injected molded plastic cost about 1p to make. (excluding the original mold cost)
If you calculate 5minutes / light saved, I can imagine doing a house light setup could save time, just 10 lights is like 1hr saved is it not? so pro-rata the cost for 10*£3.50 must be worth an hour of your time.
The biggest plus is British made, and how nice to have a thank you slip inside the package personalized for your own name. I wish Quickwire every success, and let's hope a disty picks up their product soon.
Is it a good idea to choose someone who is actually known for being honest in their UA-cam videos because it just shows how a brand actually wants to give a honest feedback about a product
Quickwire junction box is really good. I've used it on two big jobs and had no issues.
Classy bit of kit. When I was in the trade, yonks ago, we used Ashley six terminal JBs, and wiring them neatly took ages.
Do you mean the "coffins"
Have just first fixed the upstairs of our renovation with these. all sorts happening: LEDs everywhere, many lighting circuits, 6a sockets, etc etc. Made it a very fast and classy job. Very impressed. If fitted correctly, it is impossible to remove the wires without the special tool.
So basically exactly the same as a correctly terminated connector block but 1400% more expensive!
Yeah it's gonna be faster but no where near enough to justify the silly price tag imho.
paid £3.70 each. Cant call that expensive with the massive savings in time.@@Leftfield2k7
@M H " YESSSS, YEESSS IT WILLLLL"
@@tanyaroyredcar Cheers for the comment, glad you guys are using it and seeing the benefits.
I used a sample recently and its not impossible, you can use your fingers to get them out.
The intro and outro audio is so much louder than the main audio. plz fix.
tom turned to golem within two seconds hahaha
It's been around for ages but nobody seems to sell them.
We have a stockist locator on our website, hope this helps. www.quickwire.co.uk/quickwire-stockists/
Whats that V shape thing at the back ? Carpet ?
Can you use flex with this or is it only solid core's?
James Drewery 1.0 & 1.5mm T&E only
It's for solid core only.
Apparently there will be a version out in a few months that takes flex. A bit like the Clik flows.
Wonder how much strain they can take before that cable comes out.
The same if not more than a traditional JB like the other one in this video.
The Quickwire is a great company, and their products are great. Had a good chat with them at the Manchester Elex show in March. Watch out for announcements about a new product...
Cheers Tony! Hopefully not much longer now....
What about 3 core + earth
We don't have a solution for that yet, Jason but we're working on it....
Where do you put JB's on 3 core & earth ..
@@DerekHundik two way lighting
And why would they sell 4-6 terminal jb's as well👍👍
@@jaye8578 two way lighting no JBs required. Cable goes from one switch to another .
@@DerekHundik if you can't get switch wire down with one side two way switch you can wire both to JB and then to light or both ends of two way to light
The thing that makes me somewhat worried is the lack of a strain relief. The junction box shown has it built in.
You can't see it in the video, but the Quickwire has internal clamps that bite down on the outer sheath once connected. It's surprisingly strong, you can practically hang off one! We are intending to make a new video to promote how strong the Quickwire clamping actually is.
@@quickwire80 Ahh - alright. That is quite a relief (pun partially intended), as it seemed like a massive oversight on an otherwise seemingly nice product.
Idk in states we use mostly what's similar to the boxes u use for devices for junction boxes (4 inch square metal we call 1900 boxes ) with wire nuts or wago s making the splices or connection between your wires ... I would feel like I'm cheating using either of the products u showed ... It surprising to me that with how obsessed you guys seem with fire rating that u would use products like those .. but they must have an adequate rating if approved for use
> It surprising to me that with how obsessed you guys seem with fire rating
Ah, yes - the horrors of making it difficult for shoddy work to result in your home burning down and possibly taking loads of others with it.
@@MrMartinSchou And on the other hand you run wires directly under wooden floors or protect socket circuits with 25A breakers.
@@1I2am3Dani4 I'm not an electrician, but I'm pretty sure it's against code here to run 25 A through a tiny wire. And the minimum size wire you can use in residential installations are 1.5 mm^2.
And while I've not seen a 25A breaker in any of the places I've lived, if you want to run 25A through something it seems like you need to use a 6 mm^2 wire at a minimum.
We sort of like making sure our houses don't burn down. We've had centuries of fires in dense residential areas to learn from our mistakes.
Usually when this happens, it's either because it's very old installations that weren't geared for today's high power requirements, or because Mr DIY thought he didn't need to hire an electrician.
@@1I2am3Dani4 Btw, 25A to a socket? We run 230 volt, so that'd be a 5.75 kW outlet - what the fuck are you running, that needs that kind of power?
We *do* have ones that go higher, but that's 400 volt at 16 A (6.4 kW and VERY different sockets), but since the amperage is lower (by more than a third), the heat dissipated through wires are going to be lower as well.
25 A to a socket may be normal in the US with 120 v, but our standard sockets are "only" 240 volt at 10 A.
@@MrMartinSchou I'm an electrician, altough not from the UK.
As far as I know the 25A breakers are/were used in your ring circuits that are wired with 2,5sqmm, seems to be an UK-exclusive thing. Apparently it is allowed because your sockets have extra fuses and as long as the ring is intact and in good shape it seems to be considered safe.
why would a sparky pay more for a junction box, which he can charge less for using as its quicker.
Because he can complete the job quicker! Meaning he can do more jobs in. Meaning he earns more money! Labour is usually the biggest cost on any job, unless possibly you have an apprentice ;)
Review or blooper reel? :)
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Look great shame there over twice the price of other options
köszi!
Cut the blooper shit and save it for the end of the video if you must.
Its something like Wago but with three ways already built in? I mean, you can put some live wire at one end and then to the other 3 outputs you have live wire as well? Like parallel.
Yes, the first one he showed was simply 4 cables joined all together (paralleled)
The second one though was a replacement for a three-plate system (ie 1 x supply , 1 x loop , 1 x switch line ( T&E supplying the light switch ) and the final one is the light fitting which is obviously supplied by the switch/return live from the switch line and a neutral from the supply or loop.
Or you could simply use a connector strip with 7 terminals and save yourself a fortune!! lawl
@@Leftfield2k7 Thank you! :)
Very niiiice!
Seems pretty cool, not good enough to get me away from Wago though. I think wages are more versatile and better value. I also think the Wago is nearly as quick but far more adaptable
Torture it with lots of Amps lad!
Over engineering.
I'll stick with choc-blocks!
Not for me, expensive solution to an invented problem
Not practical when you have limited length on cables.
How is it any less practical than a standard junction box with regard to length? You'll probably cut less off with this, and you won't be having as much excess inside the box.
£5 each????? lol. No thanks. The time you save you spend on the product.
They are about £3.50 from good wholesalers ;)
@@quickwire80 still a pointless ripoff
@@rec1962 Thanks so much for your valuable insight ;)
@@quickwire80 Haha your product is shit
Great video but that first jb ain’t MF.
wagos for the win !
Starting to get a bit silly now Mr Nagy
wagos all day long
Goes on a bit mate, I quit after about 1 min 30 :-(
Rip off
Why do you still employ this bankrupt election Thomas Nagy
I believe the word you're looking for is "electrician". A couple letters short, but the meaning of your chosen word is way off. :)