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How to Strip a Wire in Your RV
Sydney FranklinDescription
When conducting electrical work on your RV, it is important to know how to strip a wire and the different connectors available for splicing electrical wires together. With a few simple steps, you can properly strip and terminate wires using a butt splice. Using a butt splice is the same as an eye splice or a spade splice. Butt splices are commonly used in RV maintenance and are used in the installation of trailer and clearance lights.
The first step in how to strip a wire is making sure all power to the wire is disconnected. Check the fuse box and remove or disconnect power from the grid of the RV you are working on.
The tools you need include one that can strip the correct gauge wires, one that will crimp insulated wires together and butt connectors. Next, determine the correct gauge to use on the stripper and the correct length of wire to expose. Gently squeeze the stripper, removing the outside covering of the wire.
The next step in how to strip a wire is placing one end of the butt splice over the exposed wires and squeezing it with a crimper. Do the same with the next wire on the other end of the butt connector. This will create an inline circuit.
To make sure termination is complete you will need to test the wire and ensure the butt connection will hold. Look to ensure there are no copper wires coming out of either end and gently, yet firmly, tug on each end of the wires. If there is a strong hold, your connection is good.
As the owner of a RV, there are many reasons for needing to know how to strip a wire and splice wires together. Knowing how to do this, you will be able to easily install new lighting or conduct simple electrical work throughout your unit.
what we're gonna do is I'm gonna show you how to properly strip and terminate or crimp a butt splice. Now whether it's a butt splice, an islet, a spade, the procedures all the same the first thing you've gotta do is strip the wire use the correct gauge on the stripper get the length correct. See that right there. Get both sides. And we're just going to do a simple butt splice something people do when you're attaching trailer lights adding clearance lights to your vehicle. You're going to gently slide the stranded end into the butt making sure all the strands go in I'm gonna take our crimper because this is an insulated butt splice. We're gonna use the insulated portion of the crimper which would be the forward portion. We'll crimp that down, get it centered, draw it down. This would be an inline circuit. Now we're just going to do the same thing to the other end. Insert it, use the correct again, Draw it down. One thing you want to make sure whether it's a terminal an islet, a spade, once you've made that termination you want to test it, make sure that holds Now you can see that we don't have any copper coming out either ends so we've got a very good connection strong it's gonna hold up. Won't have any problem. So that would be the correct way to do a crimp.
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