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Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:18 am
by Aurust
I was wondering how everyone wires in parallel for 6+ LED strips using wago connectors. I can only find wagos with 5 ports and have 8 strips to connect together and want to wire all directly to the power supply.

Re: Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:45 am
by LEDG
Just take one of the 5 ports and go to another 5 port wago.

Re: Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:09 pm
by CanadianClosetGarden
I'm going to use these for my build my light. They just came in the mail today :)
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Cheers
CCG

Re: Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:19 pm
by Strelok
Basically this:

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You can also use 2 x three port Wagos per strip in this way: wire in, wire out to LED strip +/-, wire out to next wago

Re: Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 4:48 pm
by LEDG
Yup. You need to make sure your wago-to-wago wire is thick enough to handle the current though, as there will be a lot of current on these runs in big systems. The wago-to-strip should be fine as 18 gauge (and you can't go bigger since the connector won't take it), but you may need 14 gauge or bigger to connect the wagos up to the driver and to one another, depending on the current level.

Re: Parallel Wiring with Wago Connectors

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:09 pm
by Stefan
Can you use each port with 2 wires and the 5th for the negative/positive? This is what I've done when I had no 5-port wago and had only 3-port on hand for the 4-parallel wiring that I am using.