Copper sleeve?
If you have a 1/0 copper cable, then swaged a dead soft copper sleeve reducer over/onto to this 1/0 copper cable to fit a #2 awg sized cable fitting, would the resistance be higher or lower? Tia, ...
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BurbMan wrote:MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
You couldn't get me to not solder it for all the Quetzales in Guatemala.
Not sure what a quetzale is or how many there are in Guatemala...BUT....what do you use to solder cable that fat? How do you get the wire hot enough to flow the solder without burning off 3" of insulation?
My little Weller won't heat anything over 14 ga and even that gets messy...I could use some advice on tools/techniques here.
Refillable and adjustable down to a pinprick flame. I have used this torch to solder 3/0 cable lugs. I only use a solder gun on PC boards and discrete components these days. I solder WEATHERPACK TERMINALS with this torch!
