[Amps] soldering vs crimping

[Carl]

Relays and PIN's regularly smoke.

The solder is there only to insure a continuing low resistance contact and 
not to increase power handling.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy" <royanjoy at ncn.net>
To: <Amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] soldering vs crimping


> "Its always better to crimp AND solder the center conductor unless you 
> feel
> lucky but dont blame the connector if it blows in a contest or
> pileup......especially the QRO crowd."
>
>
>
> Gosh...and all that destructive power passed through the tiny contacts in 
> my
> QSK relay or my tiny PIN diode at 1500 watts? Six amps?
>
> 73,   Roy         K6XK         Iowa
>
>
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