On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Igor Izyumin wrote: > >>Currently, Ronja is using wire nuts. We haven't yet noticed a failure > >>tracked > >>down to a wire nut and they are mechanically rugged. Also they seem > >>to perform > >>fairly well up to say 300MHz (when the incoming and outgoing cables > >>are > >>impedance-matched coaxials) according to edge observations on > >>oscilloscope. > >> > >Technically, these aren't wire nuts, they are terminal strips. Wire > >nuts are used (at least in the USA) as a sloppy (but code-compliant) > >way to connect power wires together (you twist the cables together and > >screw on the wire nut). Here's a picture of some: > >http://www.dansmc.com/wire_nuts.jpg > > Ugh. I despise wire nuts.
What does the wire nut do? Is it a plastic cap that protects the twisted place against untwisting? Cl<
