Strip Jacket and Form Neutral Conductor

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How installing a 200 AMP Service looks like in New Jersey for a Resi Home,Prepping the Wire #advice

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After scoring, completely remove the outer jacket by spiraling it off the cable. This will expose the internal conductors: two insulated hot wires (typically black and red) and a stranded, uninsulated neutral wire. Take the numerous strands of the neutral wire and twist them together tightly to form a single, solid conductor. This makes it easier to work with and ensures a proper connection.

Goal: Expose the conductors and prepare the neutral wire.

Tools and materials

Service Entrance Cable — The cable being prepared

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jacket on that service entrance. Spiral that. You get it completely off. Always want a clean work area. See, I'll hold this. Pick up those little tails. Nothing worse than having tools and materials all laying around. Throw everything right in there as you're going. I'm going to unwind it. Okay. You can see how you can make a conductor. Why they do it like that? Why is it not just the third conductor? Because it's actually using it to protect the wire. This is like an armored jacket around that plastic jack. Oh yeah, that is

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