New Control System How To

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

At our new Menards in Holland I have personally replaced about 40 of their wirenut versions which use the exact same concept, 6 of which had such a catastrophic failure that the fire department was called.

That was the installation where aluminum wiring was quietly substituted for the copper that got stolen the night before the work was done, right? I remember reading something about that this summer in an electricians' newsletter. The connectors involved (I think they were called something like "WAGO Wall Wire") were explicitly not intended for use with aluminum.