Sid I used those EU style terminals on a project a few years back and loved them. Bought them for my KR from Mouser and plan on doing all my wiring that way.
Craig www.kr2seafury.com ----- Original Message ----- From: smwood <smw...@md.metrocast.net> To: kr...@mylist.net Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:46 AM Subject: KR> Re: EIS Thermocouple Wiring The GRT thermocouple wires are iron and constantan. There are no terminations on the wires. Solder does not stick to well on them and even if you did solder the pins, you create a dissimilar metal joint that messes with the thermocouple calibration. With a little luck you can also create a corrosion problem at the pins, not pretty. I went to the Omega Instruments site. This is a large outfit that specializes in industrial instrumentation, especially thermocouples. All of their connections for thermocouple wires use tin coated screw-type clamps. One page even has step by step how to. If it works for Omega, I could copy their system. I found a European style barrier strip at Radio Shack that has tin coated screw contacts for bare wire connection. These barrier strips have electrical isolation and are made for high vibration
