- 1). Turn off the power. Clean the entire exposed length of insulation along the path to be covered by the stress cone with a wire brush.
- 2). Half-lap insulating tape at the center of the stress cone, taping to within 1/4 inch of the terminated semiconducting component. Half-lapping is an electrical taping technique where each turn of tape around a wire overlaps the previous turn by one half.
- 3). Tape across the center to the prescribed length of the stress cone to build up the
cone to the proper dimensions. - 4). Apply half-lapped semi-conducting tape from 1/8 inch below the peak of the stress cone, down the slope and over the semi-conducting layer of the cable.
- 5). Half lap tinned all-copper knit mesh from 1/8 inch below the edge of the semi-conducting tape, down the slope of the cone and over the shielding tape. Attach the external ground strap or pigtail there.
- 6). Cover the entire wire termination using half-lapped self curing tape.
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