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ELECTRICAL
INSTALLATION AND
Splices and Joints in Electrical Wiring Installation

IMPORTANCE OF STUDY: COMMON WIRE SPLICES

The importance AND JOINTS
knowledge and skills in wire
splices and joints is for being 1. RAT TAIL / PIG
familiar with the actual TAIL - this kind of joint
application of every splice and is commonly used to
joints and this will also serve as join two or more
your tool in performing actual conductors inside the
wiring installation. junction box.

THINGS TO OBSERVE:
The connections must be
well made and the wires tightly 2. Y-SPLICE – this
joined to prevent a loss of voltage method of wrapping is
to the device powered. generally used on small
cables because the
strands are flexible and
PURPOSE OF STUDY: all can be wrapped in
When two electric wires one operation.
are joined together, the joint
formed is normally called a
“splice”. A good splice should
not only be mechanically secure,
it must also form an electrical 3. KNOTTED TAP –
connection which is just as an this is used where the
efficient conductor as the wire tap wire is under heavy
itself. tensile stress.
4. PLAIN TAP JOINT –
this is used where the tap
wire is under considerable
tensile stress cut
5. AERIAL TAP – this is
used as a temporary tap
usually done in
construction sites. The easy
twist will facilitate tap wire
movement.
6. DUPLEX CROSS
JOINT – this is a two-tap
wire turned simultaneously
and is used where the two-
tap wire is under heavy
tensile stress
7. WESTERN UNION
SHORT-TIE SPLICE –
this is the most widely used
splice or joint in interior
wiring installation to
extend the length of wire
from one point to another
8. WESTERN UNION
LONG-TIE SPLICE – this
is used extensively for
outside wiring to extend the
length of wire from one end
to another
9. CROSS JOINT – the same
application is done as in
plain tap and the only
difference is that this tap is a
combination of two plain
taps place side by side with
each other.
10. WRAPPED TAP / TEE
JOINT – this splice can be
used with solid or stranded
wire, forming shape like the
letter “T”