wrt marine crimps: I was watching the electrician wiring my sailboat
solder connections after crimping and asked why, he said "In 5 years you
will thank me." In offshore sailing virtually everything everywhere
gets exposed to salt water and my experience is that plain crimps
corrode and fail even with marine wire and lugs, so crimp plus solder is
the way to go. It's also mentioned in the DavisRF white paper. Adding
adhesive lined shrink tubing over the crimp also helps keeps water from
wicking down stranded wire which is another failure mode. (or buy lugs
with the tubing, but $$). So I solder after crimping any lugs exposed
to the weather.
Grant KZ1W
On 11/19/2014 11:51 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:42:39 -0500, you wrote:
I'd crimp them. A properly done crimp is more reliable in flexing
conditions than solder connections. In aircraft wiring, where there is
a lot of vibration, all connections must be crimped.
73
Roger (K8RI)
REPLY:
Same thing is true for marine wiring. Solder is forbidden, crimped
connections only.
73, Bill W6WRT
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