I have a crimper and dies. I have used them only for crinmp lugs to date but I have a die that should work on these crimp splices. Trying to minimize bulk so that was why I was thinking crimp.
So this installation is a little weird. The utility feed comes in on a pole in the back yard, and into a meter enclosure mounted on the pole, and then into a 200A fused disconnect on the pole. The load side conductors exit the disconnect at the bottom and go underground about 150 feet to the house, penetrating the basement into a junction box. From there, comeone spliced THWN2 on in the jbox and ran it inside PVC conduit over to the Main load center. So the conductors in the jbox, which is after the fused disconnect, do not seem to be service enetrance conductors, but feeder conductors.
I have never used cold shrink. But have used Heat shrink, and have several sizes and a heat gun. Is there any reason cold shrink is better? Looks like it may be thicker.
It’s quicker, I’ve used it were the insulation is damaged from a truck relocating a pad mount transformer. It just slides down the wire, pull the cord, and it cinches up nice and tight on the wire. Works great when you don’t have room to heat the tube, especially when you have several wires tightly bunched like going into a conduit.
Cold shrink is great. I would say the only drawback is that it does not have the adhesive lining that some heat shrink does.
