Heat Cable Hardwire Tutorial

How to hardwire a Self-Regulating heat cable into a junction box, with a tutorial of the final end seal.
First thing, get the sealing ring and connect it onto the connector body. Make sure it gets onto the very end of the threads. Insert the retaining cap onto the heat trays cable. Next you're going to want to put a friction washer onto the heat trace cable. After that the ceiling grommet make sure these are all in the proper direction or they will not sit properly. Now insert the connector body onto the cable. Ensure the beveled edge meets the ceiling drawing with about six to eight inches of cable exposed. Remove the outer jacket with the razor blade sure not going too deep to cut the braid.
Separate the grounding braid from the inner core by making a small hole in the braid and pulling the cable through. Approximately one inch from the braid exit point score the circumference of the inner jacket. Do not cut the heater cor,d remove the inner jacket shave the core material from the outside of each bus wire. Ensure that you do not cut into the bus wires. At the end of the cable create a v-notch with a pair of wire cutters. Using needlenose pliers grab each bus wire and pull it away from the heater core material. Expose each wire down to the intact inner jacket. Remove the heater core back to the inner jacket using your exposed buffs wires as a reference.
Cut to the desired length you're heat shrink to cut both pieces so they can match. Leave about one inch from the end of the wire or your connection slide each eighth inch shrink tube over each bus wire shrink with the heat gun or torch until tubing is completely shrunk.
Slide the half inch shrink tube over both bus wires and the inner jacket and shrink down with a heat gun while still warm using needlenose pliers spread the bus wires apart and squeeze between them holding for five seconds. Ensure the bare wires do not touch each other and there's no other connections of the wires on the inside. Insert the heat table and all of its connection parts
into the junction box. Use the conduit lock nut to attached firmly to the junction box. Use a pair of pliers to properly seat the conduit lock nut onto the connector body through the junction
box. Ensure that the seal ring is firmly against the junction box creating a seal with the desired amount of heat cable exposed inside the junction box. Use the retaining cap and the friction washer to properly see against the connector body. Use pliers to fully tighten. Prepare the power supply cables by stripping the ends to about one inch of exposed copper core. Take the neutral wire from the power supply wire and one bus wire from the heat cable attached firmly together. Attached with a supplied wire nut. It does not matter which heat cable bus wire goes to the neutral power supply wire. Repeat this step for the remaining bus wire and power supply wire.
Finish these connections with electrical heat tape as desired. Attach the ground braid from the heat cable to the ground wire. From the power supply twist together properly. Slide the brass grommet over the connection and crimp firmly with a pair of pliers. Make sure they are firmly attached and won't slide apart.
For the end seal remove the outer jacket about an inch away from the edge. Remove all of the braid wire by cutting it all off it is not needed. Cut a v-notch in the very end with the v-notch. Now wrap all the mastic tape around the end ensuring that you go from the outer jacket. All the way up to the v-notch diapering through the v-notch. Make sure there's no chance the water can connect to the bus pliers.
Each shrink the end seal and make sure to flatten the end with needle nose.
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