All this being said, yes crimping is better and my preferred method is Molex.
However I don't have the crimper necessary for this job so I soldered...So did
an electrical engineer who showed me...You can get by with soldering. There is
an inflexible container for the solder joints. They will
When we need higher mechanical strength from a solder, we use 2% silver
solder. It's a lot stronger and not terribly more expensive. Melting
temperature is about the same.
Len Moskowitz
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Eutectic alloying is a fascinating effect - a metal like lead melting at
621.4°F is mixed with tin melting at 449.5°F and the resulting melting
point is even lower at 361.4°F. There is no paste phase as with
non-eutectic mixtures. For electronics it is a great idea to use a
eutectic solder
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote:
> Solder is mechanically weak, and has a low melting point. It's fine for
> little low-power stuff, when there is negligible shock and vibration. It
> is, after all, how 99.9% of all electronic connections are made on