* On 2019 16 Jun 18:50 -0500, Kidder, George wrote: > Interesting data, Don. I wonder if there is any information about > resistance variations between soldered and crimped terminals. One might > think that, with stranded wire, even a good crimp connection might not > solidly involve all of the strands, and might additionally deteriorate > with time since oxygen could get between the strands. A good solder job > should wet the wire through and (additionally) exclude oxygen. This > wouldn't be easy to measure, for sure, but these engineers are cleaver > people!
For what it is worth, the company I worked for prohibited the use of soldered connectors for terminating bonding or power wiring. Especially with regard to bonding, dissipating any lightning strike energy through a soldered connector could cause it to enough to melt the solder. In doing some microwave site upgrades I did pull out a previous generation of bonding wiring that was soldered and some connectors had signs of being heated since installation. In my shack I use crimp connectors and a quality crimping tool with no problems. 73, Nate, N0NB -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
