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1/4 in
Note: Ring of adhesive
will appear at both ends
Heat-shrink tube
Plug-in cord
Green wire
Black and
white wires
7
10
8
Mastic
9
• Use insulated bus wire
crimps and CT-100 crimp
tool to connect black and
white wires to bus wires
of heating cable. Polarity
does not matter.
• Remove release paper from mastic strips.
• Wrap one strip of mastic around the white
wire against the end of the splice
to provide a water block.
• Repeat for the
black wire.
Finish bus wire preparation
Apply 5-inch shrink tube
Connect bus wires
Apply mastic to bus wires
• Trim bus wires.
• Squeeze the
mastic together.
• Center the 5-inch heat-shrinkable tube over
the splice. Make sure tube extends over the
end of each heating cable and the cord.
• Shrink the tube completely. Start at the
middle and work toward each end.
Keep heating after tube has shrunk,
to melt mastic and adhesive inside
tube. Total heating time should
be about 2 minutes.
• Immediately after shrinking, pinch first one
end of the tube and then the other end with
needle-nose pliers until the ends stay sealed.
This normally takes 10 seconds per end.