LET's BLOW THE SNOT OUT FROM UNDER ANOTHER MYTH...
"Crimped Terminals Are Better"
Have you doubters any idea whatsoever what it takes a business to solder? None.
- Lead-free plumbers solder melts at a temperature that destroys electrical wire insulation. Toss that idea out the window
- Hot smoking lead and the EPA and OSHA. Wait! I forgot healthcare liability!
- Approved clothing?
- Suits?
- Air masks?
- Air scrubbers?
- OSHA and EPA paperwork?
- Battery manufacturing is strict and hideously expensive with hidden costs
- But cold Pb lead work is a freakin' joke compared to hot lead work.
- Wave soldering is done in a tiny confined space.
I had to pay seventy to ninety dollars 30-40 years ago to get voluntarily tested for toxic metals accumulation.
Just the fact that no one commented on the industry demand of using OEM style terminals for crimped joints told me a lot.
Mere oxygen turns copper dark over time. Insulation also enters into longevity. Insulation bearing any sulfur will turn copper black and blue over time. Strip a length of CROSS LINK POLYOLEFIN wire sometime. Is the copper new-penny-shiny? Crimp a bunch of these strands together and you will have oxidation resting against oxidation after a time even starting out with shiny new copper. If that bundle is soldered it could care less because the bond from termination to core metal is permanent and absolute.
Life in O2 and seawater taught me a lot. It is the school of the very hardest of knocks.
It is perfectly fine to not give a **** about any of this, just don't represent it the wrong way to others.
