IDEAL Electrical 30-1033P Orange in-Sure Push-in 3-Port Connectors (100-Pack)

These are cheaper than the increasingly popular lever lock connectors but for most situations they work just as well. Advantages: 1) They are truly easy to use and need little skill. Strip to the right length and push into place. 2) The resulting connection is easily inspectable. The clear housing allows you to be absolutely sure that you have inserted the conductor in adequately and stripped the insulation adequately but no excessively. 3) The connection is very robust and resistant to flexing and tugging when connections are pushed into a tight box. Drawbacks: 1) These don’t work well for stranded wires, especially finely stranded as are sometimes used for light fixtures. 2) While these connections are certainly reusable (both the connector and the individual wires can be reused without resetting anything or restripping wires) they are not as easy to take apart as lever lock connections or traditional wire nuts. Typical of most connector types: 1) They are safety agency rated 2) The quality of construction is consistent and high. Best Applications: - DIY or handyman users who need to make a quick and reliable connection without the expertise and muscle memory that an electrician typically has with conventional wire nuts. - Tight boxes where the firm retention of wires as bundles are pushed around to fit into the box around the required devices. - Situations where the small extra costs versus traditional wire nuts is not as important as ease of use or total time to make up a box.

Add an electric job in my garage. And these worked just as advertised, much easier than wire nuts.

They are a game changer for wiring. Much easier to push wires into these than to connect with old connectors.

Presents a neat appearace when used, but seen to take up more area than a wire nut. Wires are held securely and the connector cannot be reused. Hoped that the connectors would accommodate AWG #10, but so be it.

I have seen way too many loose wires in wire nuts over the years. These give me much more confidence

These are a godsend. I have been wiring my house and fighting to keep wires secure and connected with traditional wire nuts all along. I also have arthritis, so after a long day of twisting down wire nuts, my hands were killing me. Then I started working in some shallow ceiling boxes that didn't really have room for the wire nuts and I decided to give these little gems a try. Boy am I glad I did! These connectors are as close to ideal as you can get (pun intended). Once the wires are stripped, you just slide the ends into a slot and you are done. They have a capture mechanism that locks onto the wire, providing a solid connection and preventing them from ever backing out, unlike wire nuts. The clear housing lets you visually verify that the wire is well-seated. As a bonus, they take up a lot less space than a wire nut for the same number of wires and they lay flat against the walls of the electrical box to allow more room for other things. The only negative I can think of is that they are not reusable. If you install one and then have to change what you did, you will have to cut this off, restrip the wire, and use a new one. This really is only a problem if you have really short wires in your box already though and at this price, it's no big deal to toss a few. Since they work so well and you can verify their installation visually though, the chances of having to redo one due to a bad connection are minute, unlike wire nuts that often have to be removed and reset to fix faulty connections. If you haven't ever tried these, don't wait. I'm pretty sure you will wonder why you used wire nuts for so long.

Was looking for an alternative to wire nuts on a building project. The size was perfect to connect wires and were made very well. Much faster than wire nuts. Made this project move faster. They don’t slip out once you attach the wire either. Very happy with these.

Quickly connect electrical wires.