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Was at the local Home Depot in SoCal looking for wire connectors. Oddly, there were some in aisle 15, but the website said aisle 13. There were a bunch more there. So they have these in two different locations in the store. (Maybe different types of wire connectors?)
Anyway, these are similar to the Wago, these are In Sure and they had 10 packs of the 2 port, 3 port, and 5 port with yellow tags.
In-sure 2 pt lever wire conn, 10/bag $1.93 was $7.48
In-sure 3 pt lever wire conn, 10/bag $2.23 was $8.46
In-sure 5 pt lever wire conn, 10/bag $2.83 was $10.98
I did not check brickseek, but the HD website does not show them on sale.
Oh, the yellow label had a date of 11/27/23, not sure what that date is for.
https://www.homedepot.com/s/30-01l2?NCNI-5
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Summary: the In-Sure actually has a little more resistance than Wago, but a little better hold on the wire.
Anyone bumping into aluminum branch circuit wiring should skip the IDEAL purple wirenuts hanging nearby these lever connectors and pick up some AlumiConn connectors (also, fortunately, in the same section at HD). The bad news is that you're going to have to make a one-time purchase of a torque screwdriver (usually in the range of $30-60). The good news is that you'll sleep easy about your aluminum wiring connections. Though not as simple as these IDEAL lever connectors, the connections using an AlumiConn are similarly satisfying vs. the unknowns of what's under a wire nut (and completely avoid the insomnia you might develop around galvanic corrosion [wikipedia.org]).
Good luck!
Jon
To be fair, IDEAL makes a lot of things at Home Depot, plenty of which don't even carry the IDEAL branding. They were the ones actually making the light bulbs Home Depot sold under Cree branding.
Good luck!
Jon
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I won't do any electrical projects around the house without these. I can't count how many boxes I've open up for one reason or another and just touch the wire nuts and they fall off.
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Then I opened one box up and on one of the connections, the builders' wire nut had completely fallen of. It was just sitting there on the bottom and the wires were poorly twisted above it.
Good job guys! You gave me confidence in what I'm doing!
Old school folks used to use electrical tape around the boxes and wire nuts.
Same here … in clearance end cap
Will it scan at lower price and is there a way to check during shopping (using HD app?) ?
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Wago are more of a consumer thing IMHO, because they are indeed more $$ than wire nuts. The more junctions you need to make, the more it makes sense to use wire nuts as the cost differential will really add up.
That said, as a homeowner I have shifted to using Wago whenever I am doing basically anything. So much less of a hassle than twisting a bunch of wires in a wire nut and hoping the connection is solid. The connection also takes longer to complete (time wise).
In particular Wago are very handy for installing light fixtures and other prewired items like smart switches and the like, because those items tend to use stranded wire which wire nuts usually can have issues with. with lever nuts it makes no difference the style or size of wires that you're mating together.