Making and installing lighting wire “whips”

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ne of my tasks a few weeks ago was to assemble something called “wire whips”. Made of flexible steel conduit, these short pieces of wiring can be used to connect to overhead lights.

1/2" flexible metal conduit

1/2″ flexible metal conduit

To start, a connector is screwed down on each end. Then the flexible conduit is stuffed with the correct color wires for the particular installation. In this case, we were installing dimmable lights.

wire whips

wire whips

wire cart

wire cart

The wire bundle is taped on the end to help slide it through the conduit.

bundle of wires

bundle of wires

Once the connectors are on and the wire is pushed through, the whip can be installed and attached to the box which will feed power to the light.

flexible conduit connected to a box

flexible conduit connected to a box

This box will feed power to two different lights:

box with two wire whips

box with two wire whips

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