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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I'll add this as a tip
There are times when added strain relief is desired for -any- electrical termination.
Use 3-1 heat shrink tubing over the joint.
Then slip on a 2nd piece of tubing over the first shrunken tubing but make it a bit shorter in length.
If it took several hundred 90 degree flexes to fatigue soldered or bare wire, you'll spend thousands of flexes before you give up trying to break a doubled application of heat shrink tubing. It simply will not break. Unlined heat shrink tubing is almost worthless.
Worried about the inherent strength of the wire itself? Select -Cross Link- insulated wire. As a bonus Cross Link Wire withstands higher temperature. As a negative it is difficult to find tinned Cross Link wire. DLO wire is much tougher but available solely in black.
There are times when added strain relief is desired for -any- electrical termination.
Use 3-1 heat shrink tubing over the joint.
Then slip on a 2nd piece of tubing over the first shrunken tubing but make it a bit shorter in length.
If it took several hundred 90 degree flexes to fatigue soldered or bare wire, you'll spend thousands of flexes before you give up trying to break a doubled application of heat shrink tubing. It simply will not break. Unlined heat shrink tubing is almost worthless.
Worried about the inherent strength of the wire itself? Select -Cross Link- insulated wire. As a bonus Cross Link Wire withstands higher temperature. As a negative it is difficult to find tinned Cross Link wire. DLO wire is much tougher but available solely in black.
