Iffy wiring - should I worry?
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Grunff writes:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Yup. The cable itself will be fine, but terminating it into what is
designed for rigid conductors may cause problems.
Twisting and tinning makes for a pretty good compromise here.
Actually, that's a rather bad thing to do as solder creeps
under presure, so the contact pressure drops and you get a
bad connection. The right thing to do is to use a bootlace
ferrule (which should be crimped on, but you can solder that
on instead if it's a tight fit on the conductors).
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Andrew Gabriel
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