While the terminals themselves are listed for solid or stranded wire, what are your thoughts on the specific technique described by gunther? Would you consider this good or bad workmanship?
Specifically: taking the stranded wire, stripping it so that a sufficient length of conductor is exposed, but _leaving_ a length of insulation on the end of the wire, and then wrapping this around the screw terminal. This would keep the strands from coming apart, but would leave and extra dangling bit of wire if the insulation were to fall off.
The technique that I like to use is to strip stranded wire, leaving a bit of insulation on, then using this insulated section to grab and twist the stranded wire tightly, and then to cut this insulated section off. I twist the wire in the 'reverse' direction so that it doesn't 'birds-nest' when I tighten it under the screw. I've sometimes thought about leaving a length of insulation on the wire after the screw terminal, however.
-Jon
