Forgive me if it may sound rather silly, but is it okay to cap off several live wires for a short period of time? At the moment, they're wired to one of my signal controllers; however, they're not wired to an actual signal (they will be soon).
Naturally, I wouldn't leave them exposed when everything is live, so I'd think that a wire nut for each wire (including neutral) is adequate. Is this safe? I just want to be sure.
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Re: Electrical Question
by Macsignals on Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:13 pm
Wire nuts would be fine. If you're paranoid use wirenuts and tape the bottoms to the wire.
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Re: Electrical Question
by mcha9797 on Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:17 pm
Sounds good to me, as long as all the "live" wires have a wire cap/nut on them, there is no chance of someone getting that unexpected shock. 
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Re: Electrical Question
by steven1981 on Mon Apr 01, 2013 7:30 pm
Okay. I thought so. I just wanted to be sure.
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Re: Electrical Question
by RYGDWW on Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:28 pm
Make sure you get the insulated wire nuts. There are some cheap Chinese knockoffs out there that look like they're insulated, but they're actually conducting...
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Re: Electrical Question
by Macsignals on Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:32 pm
^ Amen to that. Get the Ideal tan Twister wirenuts.
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Re: Electrical Question
by steven1981 on Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:22 pm
Everything works fine. Thank you for your helpful answers.
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