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best terminations?
On one end of things are two wires stripped and twisted together with fingers and maybe (delux) some tape wrapped around it.
On the other end, imho, are simple uninsulated, tinned, copper terminals that are crimped with a simple, professional grade crimping plier (Klein). Then soldered, then covered with adhesive lined shrink tubing. Works from 16g to 4/0 (anvil crimper for #8 and up)
The down side of my prefered method is that it is relatively labor intensive. I've tried nylon insulated terminals (don't seal), ready to go crimp terminals with heat shrink tubing attached (can't solder) and very fancy crimp terminals with a band of solder inside an attached heat shrink insulation (expensive and not always a good result).
Doug
Last edited by dsiddens; 01-18-2009 at 12:37 AM.
Reason: factual correction
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