Connecting Home Air Conditioner Electrical Wires

Video Transcript

"Run the seal tight and the electrical for the electricity for the unit. Got to put my lock nut back on. Make sure I pulled my wires through. The ground is actually number 10. But my two hot wires are number eight. Now I took the ground in, my black wire in, my one, the red wire, line two in. And those connections are made. I got to put my cover, inside cover on. Now I'll make my other connections, before I put power to it. I'll do the ground wire first. Put the black wire under the lug that it goes underneath. This is the power wire going to the contactor. Wire in there see. Same on my red. And just put it in. I got power at my unit now. Well, sure enough my units come, what it is, is timed delay, which is a safety feature built in, which we like that. Protects our compressor, from power going of and on. So my unit has come up running, my pressures look good for the time, for the temperature that it is outside right now. We're in good shape. Well that's a wrap, we're finished, we have finished completely installing the heating and cooling system."