You either crimp or Solder - not both
I crimp and solder. But an explanation is in order:
I begin by crimping the PowerPole connector to the stranded wire. When the
crimp is complete, I then apply silver bearing solder ONLY to the very tip
of the stranded wire where it butts up against the connector. The wire in
the area of the crimp has NO solder and this is important to ensure that
wire stresses due to cable movement do not break the wire as if it was a
solid-conductor. So, it's the best of two worlds as flexibility at the
crimp is maintained and I can be sure that long-term resistive loss is
minimized by the small application of solder. When using this method, it's
critical that the stranded wire does not "wick" the solder up to the crimp
point and that's another reason why I use silver bearing solder as it
tendency to flow along the wire is impeded more so than with standard
lead/tin solder.
Paul, W9AC
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