Splicing a power cord

This is a simple video on how to fix a broken cord. See an electric dryer installation with a typical 220 Volt electric power cord wiring system.

Stagger the splices and solder Photo 2.

Splicing a power cord. Slide the heat shrink tubing over either piece of cord. To separate the splices of each individual wire perform the splice at a different point on each pair of wires. On the left-hand piece of cord cut the wires as follows.

Hot 2 inches from the jacket neutral 3 inches from the jacket ground do not cut. This is a simple video on how to fix a broken cord. This technique is used to save money and repair a broken cord that has been chewed up by an animal or dam.

Splicing is the process of combining 2 lengths of wires so they can carry a current. Before you splice your wires together you need to prepare the wires by stripping them and turning off the power. There are many ways to splice wires together from simply using wire caps to soldering them together.

Strip off some insulation. Use a wire stripper or slice carefully down the cord with your utility knife. Peel back 3 inches of rubber and insulation revealing the inner wires.

You should see a black white and possibly a green grounding wire. Im replacing a Dell laptop power supply with an old Mac Mini supply I have laying around. The broken Dell psu outputs 195V and 46A and the Mac psu supplies 185V and 46A.

I hoping thats close enough and will suffice. My issue is splicing the Dell cord onto the Mac cord coming out of the Mac psu. Give electrical appliances a new life.

How to and How NOT to splice electrical cordsTwist or Solder. How to Splice 220 Volt 3Wire and 4Wire Cables. There are a few considerations which need to be addressed when splicing 220 volt cable wiring in order to make the splice safe accessible and makes sure the circuit maintains integrity.

Safely Splicing 220 Volt Electrical Wires and Cables. Trim the heat shrink tube so that it covers both connectors the exposed inner wires and has adequate 14-12 coverage on both sides of the power cord. After trimming the heat shrink slide it on one side of the power cord so that it can be moved into place later.

Now repeat the crimping process to connect the still free section of the power cord. See an electric dryer installation with a typical 220 Volt electric power cord wiring system. You may find yourself with either a 3-wire or 4-wire electric dryer or a 3-wire or 4-wire outlet.

Lets look a how the electric dryer is wired and what to do if your cord does not match the plug. The benefit of having one cord is that you will not need multiple extension cords or adapters to extend a power cord to reach an electrical outlet. You can make multiple electrical cords into one cord by learning how to splice them together.

In this video I show you an easy way to fix a broken power cord. This specific tutorial will show you the process for an electrical power cord with 3 prongs. All power cables are essentially the same consisting of.

Conductor Strand shield Insulation Insulation shield system semi-conductive and metallic Jacket Each component is vital to an optimally performing power cable and must be understood in order to make a dependable splice or termination. Then cut all the wires and the reinforcement cord. Slide a piece of large-diameter heat shrinkable tubing onto the cord and push it out of the way for now.

Slide a small piece of heat shrinkable tubing onto each wire. Stagger the splices and solder Photo 2. Let the solder cool then slide the tubing over each splice and shrink it with a heat gun.

Technically youre not supposed to splice extension cords. Even if you solder the wires wrap each wire with electrical tape and encase the whole splice in heat shrinkable tubing it still wont have the abrasion resistance of a new cord. Plus its not permissible under the National Electrical Code.

Leah demonstrates how to repair chewed and broken power cords using a western union splice and heat shrink tubingLinks to Tools and Materials Leah uses in. Remove half an inch of the insulation from the end of each of these four wires. Splice these two power cables together using wire nuts by twisting the exposed copper ends together making sure that you twist positive from one cable to the positive from the other cable and the negative wire or striped wire from one cable to the negative wire or striped wire from the other cable.

I discovered wire splicing more or less by accident when my cat chewed through the power cord for a cordless phone. I can only imagine she got a nasty shock - and yet she kept doing it. I was too cheap to buy a new power cord plus I didnt want to wait for shipment or delivery so I did it myself.

OSHA standards state that flexible cords made up with wires smaller than 12-gauge shall be used only in continuous lengths without splice or tap. A hard service flexible cord that is fabricated from 12-gauge wire or larger may be spliced but only if the splice retains the insulation outer sheath properties and usage characteristics of the.