Best is to size the terminal to the wire correctly, but your method
works just fine if you only need a pair and the terminal is too big.
I'm somewhat bewildered by all the APP problems being brought up. I
have the Powerwerx crimper, I've probably put together over 50 pairs of
APP's and I've never had a problem. Not one. I've never had them
disengage by themselves, and I've never had the wire pull out. The
crimper does an identical crimp every time.
I do *not* solder the terminal for the same reason one doesn't want to
put strain on soldered connections like on a dipole antenna. The heat
will harden the copper making it more likely to break under strain.
More of a problem with solid wire than stranded.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
On 12/11/2013 9:41 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:
I do not know if this will work with powerpole connectors. My problem
was having too large diameter wire for the powerpole connectors which
inhibited proper crimping; solution chose proper size connector for the
wire size selected.
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