When wiring industrial 3-phase motors, common practice as I've seen it has been to use wirenuts to connect leads to incoming power wires, and tape them off.

I recently received an IEEE-841 style motor, that has ring terminals on the motor leads. Is there some expectation or regulation that I must use some other kind of wire connection?

Does anyone know a reason I can't just snip off the ring terminals and use the wirenut technique?

Thanks,
Evan

Page 19 for MSC-series motor-stub splice. Though there may be local variations, bolted connections in motor j-boxes are fairly universal. http://tnbelectricalworld.tnb.com/contractor/docs/shrinkon.pdf

In some plants, non-bolted splices are a “dismissible” offense. Given IEEE-841 motors are Petroleum and Chemical—Severe Duty, bolted connections are likely a default requirement.




[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 05-05-2004).]

Thanks for the response, and the splice insulator reference.

So for the splice itself, I put a similar ring terminal on my power conductor, and just use any bolt and nut that are the right size to fit through the ring terminals?

It may be best to use the existing ring terminal to size the machine bolt and ring terminal for external wiring. The T&B MSCs list a maximum bolt length. Zinc-plated steel hardware with star lockwashers have worked well for me.