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Posted by Tony Hwang on April 29, 2009, 10:52 pm
David Nebenzahl wrote:
> On 4/29/2009 8:38 AM Mitch spake thus:
>
>> Inside the mini junction box on the Dayton motor for my whole house
>> fan there are two types of connectors. One is a nut on a post. The
>> other is a spade lug. There is a knockout for a cable clamp.
>> How do I connect to these? Do I crimp the appropriate connectors onto
>> the wires in NM cable? For crimping connectors onto wire, it seems
>> like flexible wire would be better - not the solid wire in NM.
>
> Either solid or stranded wire should work OK with crimped connectors.
>
> What I'd do is solder the connectors onto the wires so I know they're
> not going to loosen sometime in the future. Call me paranoid, but I just
> don't trust connections that rely only on the holding power of a little
> bit of sheet metal to work.
>
> Soldering after crimping should take all of 5 minutes.
>
>
Hmm,
Solder? Then it becomes same as using a solid wire which can crack and
break.
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> fan there are two types of connectors. One is a nut on a post. The
> other is a spade lug. There is a knockout for a cable clamp.
>
> How do I connect to these? Do I crimp the appropriate connectors onto
> the wires in NM cable? For crimping connectors onto wire, it seems
> like flexible wire would be better - not the solid wire in NM.