Or I think I need to add a panel at the carport with individual breakers for charger and plug once I add a charger it seems?

If you do it with only 1 set of wires, you will mess up charger later if the single gang plug is used at same time.

Run the amp rating wire you want for charger, and run a separate 12 ga wire on separate breaker for plug.

You may want to research the ev charger as they are beginning to offer larger amp systems for quicker charging.

You've almost got it right. Run heavy cable. But only put a breaker on it that matches the weakest component: the plug.

I don't trust the non-levered ones that come with cheap fixtures specifically. Overall, I don't like them on anything that moves. I hate backstabs as a rule, or anything that relies on spring pressure to hold.

I agree with you, paintable caulk here. Water won’t be running over it. It’s water resistant enough to deal with the occasional splish splash, just as the dry wall will be fine, unless you’re going nuts with the water. Silicone will just be a mess.

Nononono

Don't do this. You're thinking in the right direction though.

If the receptacle is only rated for 20 Amp even though the wire is over sized, you breaker for the lowest rated component. In this case, the the receptacle.

Use a 20a breaker.

As far as connecting the receptacle, use a 12 gauge pigtail. It's not rated for 8awg

Thanks, I was wondering if caulk not silicone would be ok.

Can’t find it at the moment, but I definitely ended up on a few “how to” pages that recommended solder the two together then wire nut over the bond to make sure the stranded didn’t pull free. I obviously didn’t do much further research, or I would have run into wago’s!

Ugh, bad advice in here. Don't use silicone. You'll hate yourself for it.

No it's not. Silicone is a poor choice anywhere up against drywall.

The sink is installed up against drywall. The caulk between the two should be printable.

I mentioned specifically that it was convenient when you don’t backstab ( I assume that is when you don’t wind it around the nut?).

What kind of wagons are a hazard? I’ve seen electricians who recommend them

Just bought one of these for camping. I'm glad to know I need to reinforce it before I try to dig any holes.

A soldering gun? What would you want to solder?

Thanks, all! Silicone it is.

Welding melts the two parts together and usually adds in a third for extra filler.

Brazing basically just expands the pores of the metal of each part (simplifying here), and adds in a low-melt-temp material to fill the pores. The part cools, pores shrink, filler hardens, and it's all stuck together.

Duds are sold too, I'm sure. At work, we use Makitas with off-brand batteries; no problem with those.

"Wire nuts are not used in the UK because the old ceramic ones were banned many years ago for good reason"

I don't think they're any more solid, and there's a lot of talk that they weaken the connections over time / repeated use.

I've lived in houses (and worked in workplaces) with 40's and 50's wiring (and a couple of workplaces with literal 100-year-old wiring still in place, but unused) and things never came loose, just the opposite.

you joke. My first house was also my training ground. I learned construction plumbing, electrical, roofing, rough and finish, along with sill work in that one monstrous old Victorian with 15 foot ceilings two floors & an attick that could house a small Vietnamese village.

For the electrical I copied what I saw. most of the wiring had to be replaced as it was exposed peg and post. I put Boston loops all throughout that building.

So glad the statute of limitations has expired.

Thanks for this! I have a house with old solid wires and had resigned myself to calling an electrician because I didn’t want to buy a soldering gun.

I've had some off-brand M12 batteries stop charging after a while - they make the charger flash an error. I haven't bought any aftermarket M18s.

Maybe because properly applied, few connections are as electrically solid as when using wire nuts. But they sure are used more here in the US - where electrical standards are about a century behind Northern Europe.

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UK - never seen one.

Never saw one in Italy, either.

I can't even imagine why you'd want to use them, to be honest. They're fiddly as hell.

And as others have echoed: Wago nowadays. Every electrician I know has gone for just having a box of Wagos and the last two I asked (who were working on large installs for workplaces) didn't even carry screw terminal blocks with them any more.

Wire nuts are very common - on stranded wires - in Northern Europe (Sweden). Every house I’ve seen has them in the junction boxes. That said, screw terminals (‘sugar cubes’) have a place as well. But they are not better than wire nuts properly applied.

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