Crimp connections
For those of you that make your own cables do you use anything on the wire before you crimp?
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Thank you sir.
I wish the subject of Strain Relieving would appear more often than fairy tales.
How to do things correctly.
When someone asks me "Have you ever seen a plated terminal "blush" as the terminal passes the melting temperature point of 60/40 solder?" this person knows soldering.
When someone remarks "soldering bonds the terminal metal to wire stranding interior while crimping limits the bond to merely the surface of the strands" the person knows why soldering is vastly superior in dubious environments like salt air or corrosive gas from batteries. Meltable heat shrink does not guarantee intrinsic protection. Period. Corrosion creeps under tin coating and migrates to the end of the terminal then hoses unprotected stranding. Once electricity passes to the interior of a solder bonded wire stand it could care less about the surface interface integrity.
I wish the subject of Strain Relieving would appear more often than fairy tales.
How to do things correctly.
When someone asks me "Have you ever seen a plated terminal "blush" as the terminal passes the melting temperature point of 60/40 solder?" this person knows soldering.
When someone remarks "soldering bonds the terminal metal to wire stranding interior while crimping limits the bond to merely the surface of the strands" the person knows why soldering is vastly superior in dubious environments like salt air or corrosive gas from batteries. Meltable heat shrink does not guarantee intrinsic protection. Period. Corrosion creeps under tin coating and migrates to the end of the terminal then hoses unprotected stranding. Once electricity passes to the interior of a solder bonded wire stand it could care less about the surface interface integrity.
