Hello everyone! Welcome to a new product video from WAGO. My Name is Andreas Bretschneider. I’m the product manager at WAGO for the 221 Series. You’re all familiar with our current 221 Series, which has really grown into a proper family. We have three conductor versions of the 4mm² connector and three conductor versions of the 6mm² connector. We have mounting carriers you can use to set up distribution systems. And of course we also have the Ex version. So this is a product series with a great variety of applications. And in this product video, we’ll take a look at another addition to this series: A brand-new connector for the 221 Series. With the existing 221 types, the conductors always have to be connected on one side. So I can always come at it from one side and connect the conductors very easily – as long as I have available space and conductor length and can insert the conductor from one side. But in practice, there are also situations where that’s just not possible, where you have to make connections inline along the length of the conductor for a narrow arrangement, which is hard to achieve. And that’s what we set out to address with our new product. And the result is our new 221 Series Inline Splicing Connector. It’s a nice little connector. You can tell immediately it’s a 221 Series component. It has the same orange lever – instantly recognizable. We also have the transparent housing here, so we can see from behind whether we’ve done the stripping and wiring correctly And it can connect the same conductor sizes too. So you can work with up to 4 mm² for all conductor types. Just lift the lever, insert the conductor, close the connector, and the connection’s ready! And everything’s the same as with the familiar 221 Series, just in the other direction now. The inline splicing connector basically belongs to the 4 mm² family, so it also has connection data from 0.2 to 4 mm² for all conductor types. It can handle 32 amps and 450 volts and is fully compatible with the 4 mm² family of the 221 Series that already exists. The number of applications you can use it for is quite large. For example, we can handle things like wiring lights in a suspended ceiling – we have these nice little boxes , and we can fit three poles right in there with the connector. So you can use these connection boxes to join three-pole cables in an inline connection. You can even assemble the whole thing from the beginning. whole thing from the beginning. So for exactly those situations where there’s no other way to lay the cable than with an inline connection. Furthermore, you can also do this in larger distribution boxes for lengthwise wiring – that’s their strength. For the distribution box too, if you only have space in the lengthwise direction, you can set up the wiring to, say, collect signals or distribute signals from one big cable to several small ones. Then you can place the wiring in exactly the same way in this inline arrangement – and now you’ve got a very compact connection overall. Another application is in flying leads, for instance, for speaker wiring – you can get right at them , and you don’t have to buy something new every time you need to make an extension somewhere – you just extend it. Very compact, very small, very quick installation, and excellent transmission, very suitable even for flying leads like this. And also for laboratory setups, where sometimes you have to assemble a circuit very quickly. Just insert the conductor, close it, insert the other side too along the same inline axis, then your data cable is connected and the test setup is ready. So that gives you a lot of flexibility in laboratory setups as well. As you probably already noticed, here we have yet another example, which is secured in place. The inline splicing connector is secured on the plate. We do that with one or more accessories, namely our mounting carriers, which we offer with one to five poles. And you can also snap them together to extend them; for instance, we can snap on a single-pole one to make a six-pole one. This adapter options a lot of mounting options. We can screw it into place, we have a version with feet, we can use adhesive, we can tie it on, hang it on etc. Furthermore, you can use the strain relief mechanism here at the bottom, so you can use a cable tie take the tension off cables that are fed through here. Here we have pre-inscribed markings from one to n. And you also have the option of attaching a marking strip here with custom marking – whatever suits your needs. Then it’s very easy to insert the connector: You just sort of insert it from below, , then push it up and it latches. And then it’s very easy to remove too: Just release the locking mechanism here on the bottom and pull it back out. Then there’s also the version you mount on a DIN-rail, using a mounting carrier for the DIN-rail. So we can mount this adapter on it here too, so it’s also practical in environments where you need to put your connection on a DIN-rail. And of course another highlight is connecting conductors in devices, demonstrated here with the example of a light fixture: You can secure it in place very compactly, giving you very tidy fixed-position tidy fixed-position connections within devices. As you can see: a very flexible component, very versatile. Suitable for all conductor types and many environments. It’s the perfect answer to what was missing from the portfolio: Now we can also handle these inline connections – with the same wiring convenience , with the same high-performance technology that the 221 Series offers. And we think this is another step in making things easier for you, so your day-to-day tasks can be accomplished even more efficiently, even more quickly, but without sacrificing the quality you’ve come to expect from WAGO. If you still have questions, feel free to contact our Support department Go to our website and contact your field service representative directly. Thank you very much for your attention. And enjoy the new connector. Try it out! You’ll be glad you did!