I bought two MRC Terminal strips with jumpers to wire up my illuminated buildings. In my mind, I thought connect the plus feed wire to one row of screws and the minus feed wire to the other row. Then by installing the jumpers, each row would be plus or minus, so I could connect the light wires to each side. Today I opened the terminal strips and each pair of terminals across each row are screwed to a solid metal bar. That means they can't be treated as an individual connection.
The only thing I can think of is to take my Dremel tool with an abrasive wheel and split the metal bars to separate the terminal screws.
I have done some research and it seems I need distribution blocks, not terminals. How are these supposed to be used as designed?
The only thing I can think of is to take my Dremel tool with an abrasive wheel and split the metal bars to separate the terminal screws.
I have done some research and it seems I need distribution blocks, not terminals. How are these supposed to be used as designed?