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Prepare Power Cord Wires

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Prepare the power cord for connection. Manually separate the three joined wires (hot, neutral, ground) by pulling them apart. Then, use wire strippers or pliers to carefully remove about a half-inch of the outer insulation from the end of each of the three wires, exposing the copper strands inside. The wire with the ridged insulation is the neutral, the smooth wire is the hot, and the green wire is the ground.

Goal: Expose wire ends for connection

Tools and materials

  • Wire Strippers — Removing insulation from the ends of the power cord wires
  • Power Cord — To supply electricity to the garbage disposal

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You want to grab your Romax connector, take a pair of channel locks, some kind of pliers here, tighten this down. You're going to want to separate the wires. Separated. To go more now, you could just pull it, kind of like a twizzler, perfect. The ridge side is connecting to the white to the neutral. And the smooth side is actually connecting to the hot wire. And then agreeing obviously is going to the ground. That in there, through that right down. That way it stays in place. Let's take that ground. We'll just get that in there first.

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