ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Plug-Tail receptacles?!

I imagine the connector filled with mud, then liberly painted, after being rotozipped to shreds.

If you took the time to twist your feed in and out neutrals and hots during your rough you could disconnect the pig tails while still hot and not loose any circuits down line. the problem is everyone is lazy and just sticks the wires under the tan wire nut and twist . take a second and do some quality control and twist them wires.

Looks like a new fangled back stab receptacle to me.

And we all should know how well back stabbing receps last....


No thanks......


Dnk.......

I was given a sample of one of these at a Trade Show. It really seems to be a good quality built product.

But then... there's the cost. I've been afraid to find out :eek

Eeek! is the word
http://www.aplussupply.com/ps/plugtail.htm

Thinking laterally, enterprising electricians could get the advantages of this method without spending $25 a unit. Just prewire ordinary receptacles with suitable lengths of flying wires stripped ready for use, in your shop/ at home, perhaps even some made up for stock.
Set up on a bench with tools and materials at hand, the time taken in prewiring would be far less than on-site assembly, ie a production line versus handbuilt. On site, make the connections with wirenuts in your usual way. Any problems with this?
Alan

The company I work for has a large warehouse and they prefab a lot of things.

I doubt we would save much pre installing whips on outlets. When we rough we install pigtails in each box for the receptacle or switch.

It looks like the current cost of the plug tails far exceeds the price of the time saved.

Not even remotely close, the only similarity is that they are both duplex receptacles.

Hmmm, I'm getting deja vu here. I remember sitting in vocational school way back when and listening to the instructor telling us about this great new aluminum romex that just hit the market....

Let me know how this stuff works out.

No, that aluminum NM did not play out to well.

I hardly think that means any new product is destined for failure.