How to Install the Energy Plus Wall Heater

Steps For Installing Your Energy Plus Heater

Step 1

To install the Energy Plus you're going to need to: cut a hole in the wall, next to a stud.

The Energy Plus needs to be installed a minimum of 4.5 inches from the floor.

Note: Make sure you do meet the minimum clearance of 3/4 of an inch on either side of the unit.

Step 2

Find the stud and mark it with a pencil.

Step 3

Cut the hole so that it is next to the stud -  either the left or the right.

Tip: Cut a small hole to make sure your line is right against the stud.

Step 4

Trace an outline for the heater that’s 10 and ⅛ inch tall by 8 inches wide and cut along the outline with a drywall saw.

Step 5

Setup a new line in your panel and from the breaker panel, route the wire to your wall can.

The Energy Plus works with 120, 128 and 240 volt circuits and it will set itself based on the circuit breaker you've installed.

Note: If you feel uncomfortable doing this work or doing the installation of the wiring have an electrician help you.

Step 6

Don't forget to turn off the breaker before you do anything else before installing the wall can.

Attach the foam pad to the side of the wall can that will rest against the stud. 

Step 7

Remove a knockout from the wall can and install a cable clamp on supply wires

Tip: Leave at least 6 inches of wire to make heater connections

Step 8

Attach the cable clamp connector to the wall can and attach the wall can to the stud.

Step 9

Next step is to wire the connections.

Note: Make sure the cable clamp is in tight and leave about a half inch of the installation still there and cut back to our wires.

Step 10

240 volt heater only - make sure to incidicate the white wire as hot by wrapping with black tape

Note: If you're doing a 120 volt heater of course you would leave that alone, indicating it's a neutral wire.

Step 11

Attach the ground wire to the grounding screw and connect the supply wires to the heater with wire connectors. 

Step 12

Attach the heater to the wall can. 

Step 13

Install the grill, turn the breaker back on and your heater is ready to go!

Looking For More Information?

Are you upgrading from a Com-Pak series heater or another wall heater to the Energy Plus? We'll have a video for that too, in addition to a few general installation videos for other wall heaters. 

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Video Transcription

0:00 Hi, I'm Steve with Cadet Tech Support.

0:02 We're here today to show you how to install the Energy Plus.

0:09 To install the Energy Plus you're going to need to: Cut a hole in the wall, next to a stud.

0:14 Locate or route electrical supply wires.

0:17 Install the wall can.

0:18 Wire connections.

0:20 And install the grill.

0:21 The Energy Plus needs to be installed a minimum of 4.5 inches from the floor.

0:26 However, for ease of use we're going to mount it up a little bit higher.

0:29 Make sure you do meet the minimum clearance of 3/4 of an inch on either side of the unit.

0:34 Ok, we're finding a stud here now.

0:36 We're going to go ahead and mark that with our pencil here.

0:40 We're able to cut our hole so that our can is next to the stud on either the left or the right.

Tip: cut a small hole to make sure your line is right against the stud

Trace an outline fo the heater that’s 10 and ⅛ inch tall by 8 inches wide 

Cut along the outline with a drywall saw

1:10 Ok, so we got our cutout made, now we're ready to run the circuit.

1:14 We're going to have to setup a new line in your panel.

1:18 From the breaker panel, route the wire to your wall can.

1:21 If you feel uncomfortable doing this work or doing the installation of the wiring.

1:25 Have an electrician help you.

The Energy Plus works with 120, 128 and 240 volt circuits.

1:28 The neat thing about the Energy Plus is it will set itself based on the circuit breaker you've installed.

1:34 Don't forget to turn off the breaker before you do anything else.

1:38 Ok, now we're going to install the wall can.

Attach the from pad to the side of the wall can that will rest against the stud. 

Remove a knockout from the wall can

Install a cable clamp on supply wires

Tip: leave at least 6 inches of wire to make heater connections

Attach the cable clamp connector to the wall can

Attach the wall can to the stud

2:25 Next we're going to wire the connections.

2:27 Ok, we got our cable clamp in and it's tight.

2:30 What we want to do is leave about a half inch of the installation still there, so I’m going

2:34 To cut this back to our wires.

2:39 Ok, we got our wires here all ready we're actually going to be doing a 240 volt heater

2:44 Today, so we have a white wire here we need to indicate as hot.

2:49 So we're going to wrap that with black tape.

240 volt installs only: cover white wite with black electric tape

2:51 If you're doing a 120 volt heater of course you would leave that alone, indicating it's

2:55 A neutral wire.

Attach the ground wire to the grounding screw.

Connect the supply wires to the heater with wire connectors

120 volt only: connect the wire with the white stripe to the neutral wire.

Attach the heater to the wall can

3:52 The last thing we need to do is install the grill.

Attach the grill.

Turn the breaker back on

4:11 Ok, we got the breaker on and we have a display.

4:15 Our heater is ready to go!

4:17 Well thanks for watching, if you have any questions please leave a comment below.

4:25 If you would like to learn more about the Energy Plus, please visit some of our other videos.