Installation Guide

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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5. Connect the grounding lead to the green grounding screw on the side you’re wiring.
• KNOW YOUR VOLTAGE and CHECK YOUR BREAKER!
• All baseboards require three supply wires. For 120 volt baseboard wiring you will have 1 hot, 1
neutral and 1 ground. For 240 volt baseboard wiring you will have 2 hots and 1 ground; no neutral
needed.
STEP 2
Wire connection
If you’re wiring a WALL thermostat for your heater, follow the instructions below. Your electrical
supply wires should be routed from the circuit breaker to the wall thermostat, and then to the heater.
grounding
screw
The volume of the SoftHEAT wiring compartment is 36 cubic inches (589.9 cubic centimeters).
1. Remove one of the knockouts in the wiring
compartment. We recommend using the
rear knockout. If you use the bottom one,
you must protect the wire with electrical
tubing and add a conduit connector (not
included) at the oor.
120 VOLT CONNECTION 240/208 or 208 VOLT CONNECTION
1. Connect one supply wire to one of the heater
wires with a wire connector (not included):
A. for 240 volts, it doesn’t matter which heater
wire (Figure 3);
B. for 120 volts, connect the neutral (white)
supply wire to the white heater wire (Figure
2).
2. Connect the remaining supply wire to the
remaining heater wire with a wire connector.
3. Tuck all wires back into the wiring compart-
ment, and make sure the connections are
tight.
4. Screw the wiring compartment cover back on.
Figure 2
Figure 3
4. Install a cable clamp connector (not
included). Pull supply wires through the
cable clamp connector leaving 6-inch (15.2
cm) wire leads.
If you’re wiring a BUILT-IN model EBKN thermostat for your heater, go to those instructions now
(included with your thermostat) and follow that installation. When complete, proceed to Mount
heater to wall on page 5.
knockout
cable clamp
connector (view
from back)
grounding
lead
new
connection
new
connection
new
connection
new
connection
do not
disconnect
Supply
(white)
wire
wrapped
with
black
tape to
identify
it as
hot, not
neutral!