Battery Cable Crimp Question
The ring connectors that connect to my battery are the type where you can see the cable strands on the ring side of the connector. If I wiggle the cable, the strands on the ring side move. My unde...
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BoonHauler wrote:
Now you're starting to see why I decided to drop the crimping idea and go with soldering, the whole crimpimg thing was just too much drama for me to deal with.
I came to the conclusion that one needs to buy the lugs and tool from one supplier and the tool would need to be a bench top crimper.......but then again there's Jeff's crimps... :@
BTW I tried to pull apart one of my solder connections, no way was it coming apart. I had to heat it again to get it to come apart.
I've had a few people comment that high current will compromise a solder connection. Well, I guess that might be true if you're using the wrong guage wire but here's where we go back to the statement of things being 'done right'.
......just my 2 cents, again.
personally i feel the pull test is a joke.
i have been able to solder wire terribly and it would pass a pull test, not close to a current test
im torn as well. i always soldered but when getting up in gauge size even i have inconsistent results, which sometimes makes we wonder about crimping
not to mention i have never seen solder done in cars or anything big, everything is crimped. i am assuming due to vibration... but yea im torn as well
