Stereo/Radio install

deltabravo wrote:

SAR Tracker wrote:
Wiring connections are twisted and tested - all works as advertised. Now to make them permanent. Crimp or solder?

Crimp.

Soldering is generally frowned upon for mobile applications. RV manufacturers, automotive manufacturers, etc don't ever solder their wiring connections.

That is a "old wives tale".

The "fact" is that soldering is not done in RV/Automotive applications because of SPEED AND COST.

Has zero to do with quality or the supposed wire breakage from vibration.

If what you said was true, then perhaps you care to explain as to why EVERY "circuit board" in every vehicle and RV actually has every parts SOLDERED to said board?

If crimping was vastly "superior" then I would think the electronics industry would have developed a "crimp" connection of components to the circuit boards..

The truth is, soldering takes skilled labor, it takes prep and takes more time to perform but the connection IS far more reliable than crimping.

You are more than welcome to continue dreaming that crimping is better but myself after 22yrs in the manufacturing industry I choose soldering.. Over those years I HAVE seen the after effects of many bad crimps performed with poor tools or even worse, bad labor (yep, companies trade workers around the production floor like "Bubble Gum cards").. Some of those crimps broke wires, some never crimped well enough to hold the wires and often the crimps barely held long enough to get past QA and out the plant door causing the poor sap installing the items in the field a lot of grief when the device failed to work.