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Common Joints and Splices

This document describes different types of wire splices and joints used in electrical wiring, including: 1) Western union short/long tie splices used for small solid wires inside buildings. 2) Duplex wire splice used to join parallel wires. 3) Britannia and scarfed splices used for large solid wires inside and outside buildings. 4) Various tap joints like plain tap, small aerial tap, and knotted tap used to connect tap wires to through conductors. 5) Wrapped, split cable, and ordinary cable tap joints used for stranded or solid wires.

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Common Joints and Splices

This document describes different types of wire splices and joints used in electrical wiring, including: 1) Western union short/long tie splices used for small solid wires inside buildings. 2) Duplex wire splice used to join parallel wires. 3) Britannia and scarfed splices used for large solid wires inside and outside buildings. 4) Various tap joints like plain tap, small aerial tap, and knotted tap used to connect tap wires to through conductors. 5) Wrapped, split cable, and ordinary cable tap joints used for stranded or solid wires.

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Kinds of Splices and Joints

SPLICES DESCRIPTION ILLUSTRATION

A wire splice widely used or


Western union short tie applied inside to building. This splice is
applied only to small solid wire.

A splice which is similar to a


western union short tie, only that the
Western union long tie number of twist at the center and at
both end are more compare to a short
tie.

A wire splice used in joining wires


Duplex Wire Splice
in parallel.

This splice in applied in both inside


Britannia and outside the building to big solid
wire where twisting is difficult.

A splice similar in appearance with


Scarfed Splice that of Britannia only that its end is
hidden.

A splice used in joining through


Ordinary wrapped conductors that are stranded. This kind
cable splice of splice is applied in the absence of the
connectors.
This is mostly used in outside work
Plain tap or tee joint for joining a tap wire to a through
conductor.

A join mostly used in location


Small aerial tap joint where wires are subjected to
considerable movement.

This is mostly used for tapping a


Knotted or loop tap joint temporary wiring or lightning system
where soldering is not applied.

This is generally used where large


Ordinary cable tap joint stranded wires are tap to a main or
through conductor.

This is used in large solid conduct


Wrapped tap or tee joint where it is found difficult to wrap the
large tap wire around the main wire.

This is most frequently used where


Split cable tap or tee
small stranded wire or cable are tap to
joint
a through conductor.

This is used where two tap


conductors are to extend away from
Ordinary cross joint
the branch conductor in opposite
direction.

This is used in the same manner


Double wrapped cross
and reason as the ordinary cross join
joint
with the advantage of being stronger.
A wire splice mostly used in outlet
Rat Tail joint
and junction boxes.

This is used where fixture leads are


Through Fixture Joint connected to branch wire at an
immediate point.

This is used where fixture leads are


Terminating Fixture joining to the end of the branch or
conductor.

In making up a drop cord, tie an


underwriters knot at the top so that the
Underwriters knot weight is supported not by the copper
conductors where they are connected
to the terminals, but by the knot.

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