How To Work With BX Armored Cable And Prepare It For Wiring Your Panel
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In this video we show you how to work with BX armored cable and how to cut it and prepare it for wiring your panel or sub-panel for your home, garage or pole barn in our case. So make sure your subscribed so you don't miss that video. Thank you for your time and thank you for watching.
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Hi. If you want to, or in cases where you need to use an anti-short bushing, you will find it easier to insert the bushing before you pull the plastic jacket back. Ususally wiremen will then pull the plastic back over the bushing, thus holding it in place. The type of connector you properly used for MC cable makes using the bushing optional, as the small throat opening in the connector keep the wires from being forced into contact with the armored jacket. They are required when installing MC into connectors not specifically designed for them, angled connectors, and in boxes where there is no connector, just an internal clamp. AC cable always requires the use of the bushing.
You can also use a hacksaw to carefully nick the cable and then crack it and cut it.
Thank you!
The cable being demonstrated is MC, meaning metal clad. The red bushings are not needed because of the plastic wrap.
BX cable, properly known as AC, meaning Armor Clad, has a paper inner wrap and does call for the the use of an anti short bushing.
There is two kinds of aluminum interlock cable：AC90（BX cable） and MC cable. Same thing is that they both have Metal clad. But totally different inside. There is ground wire with jacket for MC but bare copper conductor as ground wire for AC90. We are electrical cable factory produce these two kinds of cable. If you need more details， contact me.
Technically, that is MC cable, not AC or generically called BX cable. Different grounding system.
For that bushing, just wondering if you could put in inside the connector at the right spot so it’s visible and then slip the wire in after.
Hmmmm interesting, I didn't know there was specialty screw down connectors for holding this wire in the box. Thanks for the info.
Woah Chris this must be your Vlogs from the year 2050!! Old Chris! Lol
loll, that would be the best still vlogging at 80:)
They forgot to link the connectors in the description. Never mentioned there were different sizes for different size knock outs in the box. There are also water resistant connectors for damp areas, others for wet areas.
Hi there. Could you please include a link to the connectors you are using? You mentioned putting a link up but it is not there. Also, technically, that is MC cable, not BX. Your cable has a separate green grounding wire, making it MC. BX cable has a bonding strip that makes the armored casing itself a safety ground path. A lot of people use the terms interchangeably, but there is actually a difference.
Yep - my 1966 house has BX cable, with two conductors (black and white) and what looks like a bare aluminum wire. I assume MC cable has replaced BX?
After my cable running is completed, I find that the metal in the middle part of the cable is broken. Does this affect the use? Do I need to take it out and then running again.？
Those connectors you are attaching to the MC cable, at 3:32 for instance, are for NM-B cable, not for MC.
your time stamp literally shows those are mc/ac connectors. nm-b connectors don't have the inner lip like at 2:47. These people have gotten a lot wrong in terms of electrical in the 2-3 videos i've seen, but they're at least using the right connectors lol
question im trying to setup two outlets in a dodge promaster. It will be connected to a generator so the lines will only be live while im using the generator. its a worktruck not for rv. my question to run the wires from the generator to the two outlets can i use this armorlite wire since im mobile and it will be in the walls of the van bouncing around. any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
Don't use MC cable for this, and especially don't use solid copper wires. Use stranded like THHN and run them through either wire loom, or if you want more protection, you could use flex tight.
@@tristanschaper281 so i dont know much other than little projects here and there. biggest project ive tackled is 50amp plug to charge ev car. Ive tried to find 10/2 stranded metal but cant find it. I can find it in 125ft but not shorter. since im running the wire inside the frames of the promaster i prefer for it to be metal just for simplicity. I dont want to buy wire and a separate (flex tight) to protect the cable. Id rather have an all in one solution like the armor cable. Any suggestions. the wire has to be rated for 30amps. im connecting it to my generator rv port. and its travelling bout 15 ft inside the frame of the van to a 6 outlet box. any suggestions
isn't that MC cable since it includes a full-sized ground conductor?
yup
Hello Chris
Hello Jeanetta:) I hope your having a great day:)
I can summarize this video with one sentence: that's what she said.
umm. I think that's MC, not BX. The difference being there is no ground conductor in BX, which is an old product not used much. Am I wrong? Why not call things by their proper names?
Those red things are not required by code. Fyi. MC not bx as well. Cmon man.
that's metal clad cable!
Of course it's MC. Idiots. He wouldn't know BX if it bit him in his ass. You gotta love CZcams......
@@waaaaa99 where I live now everyone calls MC BX
@@JeffPenaify And I'll bet they call rafters joists and doors windows.
@@waaaaa99 no they call box and mc, box. But know the distinction, they just call armored cable bx as a generalization, they also call lineman’s pliers Klein’s for short
With all due respect that is Mc cable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! because it contains a grounding conductor
Clowns......keep it up. Cleaning up your mess keeps us in business.
Thank you!