How to Splice Wires With Twist-On Wire Connectors Twist-on wire connectors are plastic cones with threaded metal inserts that grab onto the wires as you twist on the connector. While some experts recommend twisting the wires before adding the connector (see below), most manufacturers instruct you...
Take one set of wires that you intend to splice and place the ends/terminals next to each other—negative to negative (-), positive to positive (+). You want the wires to be in-phase. If you're unsure,test the speaker wires with a battery. Using the wire cutters, strip off the ex...
Next, pull the wires you want to splice through the clamps so the exposed ends are inside the junction box. Pull them far enough in so the clamp closes over the wire casing. At that point, you can twist the wires together with their counterparts-- make sure you match colors and twist ...
How to Perfectly Clean Wires in Minutes!!!: Here is an old ham radio operators trick for cleaning wires for soldering that are old and corroded. It is hard to find this technique printed anywhere! I am a ham, NH7ZE, and learned it from my elmer (me
This meant I had to splice wires for the new lights into the factory wire harness. I decided to try solder seal butt connectors to tie into the factory wires, mainly because they claimed to be waterproof. But I soon found there are more reasons to use them instead of traditional crimp ...
Terminate the ground wire and again splice the neutral wires without terminating them anywhere. Be Careful When Buying the Switches A final word of caution: when buying the switches, make sure the switch amperage is rated at least as much as the breaker that turns off the power to the circui...
The ground wire is already bare but I'll need to remove insulation from the black, red, and white conductors before they can be connected to a device or to a splice. Excerpting from HOW to CONNECT WIRES to a RECEPTACLE or SWITCH Above I'm showing the wire strip-back gauge area marked...
At times, your cooling fan stops working because a sensor has gone bad, but the fan works just fine. A way to get around this situation is to wire in an on and off switch. This switch works by eliminating the ground connection when it is switched "off" a
The easiest way to add new light fixtures is to run the new wiring to the existing light fixture, splice the wires together as the old fixture was connected and then place a decorative blank cover over the fixture box. Arlington makes a white blank fixture box cover that works very well ...
Option 2:Decide what line to use and disconnect all of the wires from the red screw post andsplice [§18]them together. Then, disconnect all of the wires from the green screw post andsplice [§18]them together. Even if a single wire, splice to 'nothing' to prevent the end of the ...