Installing Wireways for beginners

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holmes law

today we're going to be doing a video on

wire wings

it's also going to be a voice over so

bear with me okay let's start the show

basically you're going to be seeing a

few wire ways here that we worked on and

i'm just going to show you a little bit

about everything i'm going to show you

the accessories

um how to do an offset pretty much and

um

how we actually do y ways okay i think

if you're a beginner you'll get

something out of this all right so

basically

you're looking at 12 by 12's here okay y

ways we're actually connecting them to

transformers

if i were to give you some knowledge

here and actually give you some tips i

would actually tell you

start with your racks okay

plan out your route and start with your

racks

okay that's the most important thing

right now here

are the accessories here this is what

you want to actually

let me get uh back to that let me

actually

show you here the accessories now we

have

connectors okay which these are the

actual connectors these go

onto your junction box

or whatever the case may be um

whether it be distribution panels or

whatever okay

this is what's actually going to connect

your wire way to

a box now mind you you have to cut out

the box in order for your wires to pass

through

okay now in order to also make

put your y ways together you have

couplings

okay which you'll see okay and

then you have 90s and elbows that you

this is a 90

that's an actual coupling okay it comes

with screws

all your wires will come with all your

hardware already

they're basically 6 32's or 832's

these are elbows okay all those holes

that you see there that's where your

couplings are going to go into

okay and what you want to do is make

sure that you actually don't have any

gaps in between your joints okay because

it just looks awful

you know make sure that your joints are

really tight together

okay and you know when making offsets

i'm going to get into that also you want

to make sure that your joints are good

and when you cut it and you cut it

really straight

okay use a square but we'll get into

that

all right now you could just see here

you could see all you know the the y

ways

and on the bottom of y aways whenever i

mount them to

something you know i like to actually

support it with a kind of

underneath okay if you look

here i'm gonna actually show you

a little bit in the future where i put

kendo's underneath just to support some

of the weight

okay you could see how we actually do

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90s right after the 90s you want to

actually support it with some kind of

kind of

as well as with offsets okay

you know especially by joints you want

to try to support it as soon as possible

okay now they're supposed to be

supported every five feet

okay when it's vertical it could be up

to 15 feet but no more than one joint

okay in between your you know your

supports

all right so

other than that you can see how we

actually supported them

all right you can actually start to see

i offset it here i have my

support right underneath these are six

by sixes

i use my connectors to get into the

distribution right on top there

okay and we're moving

on see for my supports here i had like

three

12 by 12 i just went ahead and used a

whole

pretty much a whole length of kindle

right across

you know and what you want to do is

every time you place

a wire way down you want to bolt it down

okay you don't have to do it right then

and there but you want to actually

bolt it down to the actual kendo all

right you don't want to just leave

it free air and hang in there without it

being bolted down because when it comes

time to pull those wires

those wire ways will move you know

and then you're gonna have a mess you

know nothing is gonna be spaced

evenly at all okay

here i mounted it let me get back there

i

mounted it to my transformer but you

won't be able to see too much on the

side there on my

on the right side of the screen i just

mounted it and i cut out

my holes later you know i don't really

worry about cutting that out right then

and there

you know i just mounted to my

transformer and i cut my hose later

so these are 12 by 12

offsets okay i will get into doing how

you doing offset

later okay without having to eyeball it

and guesstimate okay see you're all my

90s

okay now i do want to tell you a little

bit about 90s okay when

you see in the table all right there's a

table where you pretty much you don't

want to fill up these wire ways no more

than 20

you know and pretty much you could fit a

lot of conductors in there all right but

these 90s

here are very unforgiving okay

now when you want to go in and fill

these up and pack these up

and when it comes time to bend these 90s

and especially with bigger cable

it's it's really hard so if it's up to

you

i would oversize your why away when

you're starting to use bigger cable and

pulling bigger cable

yeah i would at least you know

you know at least up it to like one size

if you're using six by sixes

up into like maybe eight by eight if you

could

you know if you have a call if you can

if you're calling the shots that's what

i would do

you know because when it comes to these

90s they're very unforgiving

also i don't have them on this video but

you have what they call

compound 90 y-ways where it's

245's and it's actually better

you know to pull the wire through those

it's a lot easier

all right so just something to think

about

all right now when getting

into the actual covers all right

every time i actually cut a y away

i make sure i cut the cover too and

place it to the side

whether i i'll number it or i'll put it

right with the y way

inside the y way this way because at the

end of your job you'll

you'll have a mess i'm telling you it'll

be a mess you won't have any covers

they'll be lost or you'll they'll be

mismatched

so pretty much all of these nothing is

pulled yet

i just we just have all the covers

thrown on top temporarily until we

you know pass our wires through

so that's what i do i just throw them on

top you can actually just lift the

covers off and they can just start

pulling their wire

all right also when you when you're

running y away okay when you're running

y away

let's just say you have to add

a small piece like a 12 inch piece to

complete

whatever measurement you need

all right what i do i've been doing

wildlife for a long time

and it's not a waste okay what i do is i

instead of

cutting a 12-inch piece and adding it to

my measurement

okay let's just say i need a piece

that's gonna be um

the y ways of five foot pieces and

i need a six foot piece i rather cut

two three foot pieces and put them

together

than actually cut you know

a five um a 12 inch piece and add it to

a five foot piece

okay instead of doing that i'd rather

just cut

two three foot pieces and put them

together

okay and it just looks professional that

way

you know and you really don't lose

anything because those pieces that you

cut and that are left over you could

actually

you you'll be surprised they'll be used

as well later on when

as you keep running all right i just

feel it looks more professional that way

and when you cut you won't have these

holes that are on the side for this

coupling that you see here on the right

side of the screen on this 12x12 you

will not have them there anymore you'll

have to

you know put your cupping on mark them

and

actually you know drill them out again

all right now also what i want to tell

you is when you're actually fabricating

these wire ways

put the screws in with the heads facing

inside the wiring when you're pulling

wire you don't want

the screws on the inside

okay because they will cause shorts they

will

cut your wire you know even if you put

you know rubber tape it it happens to

get through that especially when you

when you're pulling heavy wires just put

them with the heads facing

inside the actual y way

okay and that's it you know what i mean

with the nut

on the outside and that's the best way

to do it i feel

you know i mean if you want to do it

another way then you know by all means

just a little tip all right let's

continue on

when i cut my y aways i like to use a

square

excuse me i like to use a square so that

i can have a straight line

you know what i mean i like to use a

grinder use whatever you want to use so

that you can

you know get straight cuts for me the

grinder

that's the best way i can you know uh do

a straight cut

i put on my face mask and i'm not

bothered by the

you know by the sparks at all so i can

concentrate on cutting straight

all right now

like i said before you want to put those

screws

with the heads facing in and if you can

get rounded

you know heads and not use hex screws

even better

okay there are times where if you run

out of screws you can use

quarter 20 screws or you can actually

order

8 32 screws i know some of these wire

ways the smaller ones

they'll come with 6 32's as well with

the nuts and lock washers as well

now when you're dealing there's another

tip i want to give you when you're

dealing with

90 prefabs and all that for the why ways

pay attention because some manufacturers

will be different

you have 90 wire ways that

they're kind of like stubs you know and

they won't be as

long all right and then you'll have some

90s that'll be

a little bit longer where their stubs

are longer all right

so here you can see that um

i use this a square you know i make my

lines

all around the actual y way

and this way i can you know nice dark

lines and then i use my grinder

you know that's how i do it

i like to install my couplings first as

you can see it here

and then wherever i'm going to cut it

you know i cut it and i have two

couplings installed already on either

side

that's just how i like to prep you know

um i start off by installing some

couplings on some wire ways

and yeah that's just how i start you

know

um i actually hate doing the couplings

you know i actually get

my helper to do that you know i hate

doing them it's so tedious you know

but um has to get done

also drilling out those holes for them

it's it's a pain but you know it has to

get done as well

always file your edges i hope i don't

have to tell you that

but yes if you're just starting out and

you're new to the

you know working with wire ways always

file them out

use your grinder to clean it a little

bit and then still

use your files to smooth out the edges

okay

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yep because you can see here that

grinder i know some people that like to

use actual wire i mean uh sawzalls

i'm not really a fan of that when it

comes to cutting wire wigs see you can

see here the couplings it has the holes

for the other side of the joint

you just you know put your joint

together and you go ahead and install

you see i have the screws

that's how i like to face my screws

because you don't want them

facing on the inside okay it's just not

a good idea

all right now pretty much this

is a connector this is what you're going

to connect to the actual box that you're

running it to keep in mind that you have

to cut that

out whatever you're mounting it to a box

a panel whatever you got to cut that out

okay and you're going to mount this to

it

always keep your y ways level

it's just like pipe right level

side by side you know in every way you

want to have it

level in every side

all right keep them all at the same

height

keep in mind where your covers are going

to be if your covers are facing

up you know keep them all facing up

unless you need to change that for some

reason

you know

now to making offsets all right

this is just uh an uh an elbow you see

here on the long side where that point

is

that's your long side you just want to

take a measurement half of that

the short side would be on the bottom

here where my arrow is where i'm

pointing to

you want to measure half of that okay

you want to combine those two

measurements

half of the long side and half of the

short side

you take that value okay

and then you're gonna not forget that

value obviously all right whatever that

value

is remember that because you're gonna

subtract that from whatever your

calculation is for your

offset now let's these are 45 degree

elbows so we're going to use the

multiplier of 1.4

so let's just say you want a 20 inch

offset you times it by 1.4

okay and whatever your answer is you're

going to subtract it by whatever value

you just got

which is let's just say for this sake

it's going to be five and a half

all right you subtract your your um

spacing between minus five and a half

and that's the y

way you have to cut now you're only

going to measure one elbow you don't

need to measure two of them even though

you need two of them to make an offset

let me repeat that you only need to

measure one elbow

both sides long and short okay

one elbow you need the value of the long

and the short side added together

one elbow all right

that's basically it for the offset it's

really simple

okay you just like i just said measure

take one elbow measure the long side

measure the short side

half of them obviously and then add it

together

take and then subtract that from your uh

spacing between ben's calculation that

you did

all right i'll go into more detail you

know into that

um on the screen with a diagram

okay basically it isn't that hard

all right and then whatever you get

after that

that's your missing piece you're gonna

cut and install that

okay it's fairly easy all right

always remember that when you're

you know installing your pieces all

right to cut straight

and place your coupling on tight

all right because you the main thing

with y ways is

not seeing those gaps in between

joints okay that's

it's a big difference all right between

a good job and a bad job

you know honestly speaking because um

you know why

ways i mean you can actually make it

look really good if your joints are

really tight together

and the spacing is good and everything

is level and straight because don't

forget

you have a square object it's not round

it's a square

object so it's gonna line up with the

room and if you're crooked it's gonna

really show

okay so

try to just take your measurements right

space them out right you know if you're

next to a wall

make sure that your measurements away

from your wall are even of course

you know the whole wire way

when you're doing 90s you know same

thing

you know just um make sure everything is

level and that's pretty much

it you know this is the piece here that

i need to cut out

for my offset we need to make holes here

to join it to my elbow all right so

like i said you know same thing on this

side

and then you know when you're doing

those holes and you're putting in your

your coupling just make sure that you

know

you you're making those joints tight

again i cannot

stress that enough

okay now back to the actual screen

really quick just to go over this and

you know get on the screen so i can

actually explain it a little better

okay these are my uh pictorial pictures

of

actual elbows 45 degree elbows

okay just to give you a little you know

fix the environment here and you know i

mean actually create the environment

this is an elbow and the conductors pass

through here where it actually says it

does

on the right side same thing okay

they're in opposite directions the long

side is where it says four

inch the short side is on the bottom

here where it says inch and a half

and on the right side elbow it's

actually the opposite the short side is

on the

top facing up and the long side on the

bottom

where it says all right so we're just

gonna actually go through this really

quick

all right so what you want to do is you

want to actually measure

your long side okay you can measure half

of it because where the elbow is on this

long side you have that actual

point there where it actually you know

shows you where half of it is

so you could just measure that out and

let's just say for the video sake is

four inches

on the short side you could just go

ahead and measure the whole thing and

then divide it by

two okay this way you're more accurate

let's just say for the video again it's

an inch and a half

okay so combined total of five and a

half

inches you don't have to do that with

both elbows you don't want to measure

both of them and combine them with 11

inches you don't want to do that just

take one elbow

and measure both sides like we just did

okay

and take that value all right and you're

going to go ahead and start your steps

like an

actual regular offset

okay which the multiplier for a 45

degree offset is what

1.4 so let's go ahead and do an example

really quick

for a 20 inch offset we're going to go

ahead and use the multiplier 1.4

for 45 degree of um offset that's going

to give us a spacing

of 28 inches okay spacing between bends

now i know this is why ways we're not

bending just bear with me

okay so 28 inches we're going to take

our value of the elbow

okay and that's going to give us

22 and a half inches okay so we took our

spacing which is 28

and we subtracted our elbow

value okay which is five and a half

inches that gave us 22 and a half okay

so the missing

piece of wire way that you need to cut

out

is 22 and a half inches to get a 20

inch offset okay so you cut that

you fabricate it put those two elbows

together that's gonna give you a 20 inch

offset okay it's pretty much as simple

as that you can do that with any size

y away whether it be 12 10 8 whatever

just

measure the long side half of it measure

the other short side half of it

combine them subtract that from your

spacing between bends calculation and

that's going to give you your missing

piece of flyaway simple okay

don't complicate it just keep it moving

and that's basically it

ladies and gentlemen whether it be a 30

degree elbow 22 and a half

15 10 i'm not even sure if they make

those elbows or not i'm not sure i'm

pretty sure they do

i've only worked with 45s and 90s when

it comes to wire ways

but i'm pretty sure they have to have

them but it's the same thing if you're

going to do a 30 degree offset

multiply is 2 just make sure you measure

the elbow out the same way we did here

and that's it

okay so that's it for the actual diagram

let's get back to the show

right this is pretty much the finished

product

okay all of the why ways are pretty much

done

at this point just showing you the end

result

yeah these were three 12 by 12

all right they were all feeding three

different transformers

225 kva

yup i offseted two of them

and one of them was able to just go

straight

you know within a 90 these are six by

sixes

that go into a distribution panel

yep and like you see here i mean these

were really really tight together i

really had no play

you know and i had to go straight and

into the back

sorry for the i had to focus here

and go right into the back of the crown

junction box up here all right

yo man i had to my kendo

this way just to support it a little

better you know