you're going to be working with stranded wire this is one area that i don't recommend using those push-in connectors they say that you can but i've just never had much luck with it real quick i want to thank this video sponsor which is trueville with the fresh new year comes a great opportunity to set some meaningful new year's resolutions for me one of my top resolutions is always considering my finances trubill is an all-in-one personal finance platform that helps you save more and spend less the personal finance manager allows you to manage subscriptions lower bills monitor your credit score and build your savings all in one place truebill has helped me better control my finances by safely and securely identifying reoccurring charges and cancelling unwanted subscriptions with just a tap it also helped lower my bills by negotiating them for me from internet service bills to credit card bills saving me both time and money another feature i love is that true bill can automatically monitor your spending by category send you friendly notifications when you've excited them and visualize your spend to earn ratio by month quarter or year with truville i'm looking forward to getting ahead and crossing a lot of financial to-do's off my list for NUMBER_TOKEN. to try it out for free you can head over to URL_TOKEN april or click the link in the video description so wire nuts are safe reliable and cheap but they're not my favorite my kind of go-to these days for anything electrical or these push-in connectors these come in a variety of different sizes from two inlets to six they are more expensive but i will tell you right now they will save you a ton of time the way that you use them is you strip back half an inch of insulation and then simply push them in now the important thing to note is that whenever you use these you want to make sure that the uh that it seats all the way you also want to make sure that you don't have any copper exposed on the bottom side outside of the pushing connector now if you need to get these off you simply can't pull them out which is a bonus to them so if you make a mistake or are disconnecting a connection twist it back and forth in order to get it taken off but on that sometimes whenever you're wiring a lot you're actually twisting and pulling so before pushing your wires into your junction box make sure that the copper is seated all the way on all of them then before you close up your your box something else to know is that even if you get a six push-in connector you don't have to fill every single slot you can leave some of these open all right let's move on to wiring in an outlet now a lot of outlets will actually come with push and connectors here on the back yes they work yes they're going to save you time however i've spoken to so many electricians that refuse to use them because they've seen so many problems with them i'm going to put that over there so i definitely recommend using the screw terminals on the side but nowadays you can get an outlet with a plate on the side that is almost just as easy instead of having to make a pigtail the correct direction around the screw lug on these that you can move the plate forward put in your exposed copper and then tighten down on the screw you want to make sure that you don't trip back too much insulation where your copper is hanging outside of
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