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3.3 Finishing the splice
1. Place a 38.1 mm [1 .50 in.] section of heat shrink tubing over the crimped splice.
2. Center the splice in the tubing (Figure 7), with approximately 12.7 mm [.50 in.] of tubing on each side of
the splice.
Figure 7: Centering the splice in the heat shrink tubing
3. Heat the tubing with a heat gun until the tubing shrinks to the shape of the splice (Figure 8). Do
not
overheat wires.
NOTE
Also apply tubing to bare ground wires.
Figure 8: Finished splice
4. For stranded copper wire attached directly to a device, use a wire nut to connect the stranded wire to a
solid copper pigtail (Figure 9).
DANGER
Do
not
use a wire nut to connect the stranded copper wire directly to the aluminum wire.
Figure 9: Connecting copper wires with a wire nut
1
Wire nut
2
To device
