Crimping requires a lot less skill than soldering, that was my point. I'm not an electrical engineer but I've always used crimping for my speaker building and car stereo projects. I've never experienced breakage of wire strands, and have found crimped connections to be much more reliable than my pitiful attempts to solder.
Solder is a poor conductor and I would expect a decent crimp connection to conduct better, perhaps someone has tested this somewhere (not sure how one would test this). I would also expect oxidation of copper wires kept dry to be negligible, but can't quantify this. I know that when I make your device I will use crimping, so maybe we can learn more from my direct experience. Alan On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Mike Monett <[email protected]>wrote: > > Alan, > > Crimping requires some skill to apply the proper pressure. The joint has to > be gas-tight to prevent oxidation and poor conduction. > > As far as I can tell, the tools that can do this correctly are very > expensive. At least the ones I have had to buy. > > Two of the joints connect the fine stranded wire of the alligator leads to > the solid leads of a through-hole resistor. I think crimping would tend to > break the fine strands and result in poor joint reliability. > > Do you know of any easy and inexpensive method to avoid these problems? > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org > > Unsubscribe: > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> > List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]> > > > -- Alan Jones "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution)
