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. It takes
a lot longer - with a lot more waste - to get
consistently good
solder joints, than it does to get good crimped joints
with a
high-quality crimping tool. When I get to that point, I'm
investing in an appropriate crimping tool; it will be less
expensive
than the time and re-works I'd have to put into a
soldered
system.
Best Regards,
Dale R.
Dale
After having some work done of the Motorbike and seeing the
professional crimping tool - I'm totally with your opinion on this.
George (down under)
Charlie England
wrote:
WRJJRS@aol.com wrote:
Charlie
This is one of those where people
must agree to disagree. Get the proper crimpers, you need only buy them
once. Far to many failures occur due to incidentals and ancillary
systems. The milled pins or even the better rolled pins work with the
crimper to form the best possible connection. The conductor is crimped
in the pin and the insulator is captured by the "tails" of the pin
forming a sort of strain relief. This isn't possible with the soldered
pins regardless of how good your technique is. Even a perfect solder
joint is more likely to break. We need solder joints on circuit boards
but crimps are better for everything else. The US Navy now uses crimp
connectors on everything. They can "afford" it of course at our expense.
If you live in Florida or California's coastal area corrosion could be a
factor. Any coastal area for that matter.
Bill Jepson
Having spent a lot of years repairing crimped
connectors (built in a production environment in high dollar commercial
products) with corrosion or stress riser broken wires, I can say with
confidence that crimped connectors aren't immune to the problems
attributed to soldered connections. I've repaired my share of 'cold'
solder joints, too.
I'm just saying that neither is inherently
superior to the other & neither is inherently more prone to failure
from stress risers. The built-in strain relief in crimp connectors exists
only in some specific brands & models of connectors. Without high
quality connectors, tooling & training, crimped connections are
failure prone due to both corrosion & stress risers.
Just a
cautionary note that crimp isn't automatically 'quality'.
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