what is the best thing to do here

[GLENNSPARK]

Wiring looms ?????????

is this luddites corner?...lol...

 

[Guest55]

solid cores need to be crimped with a set that uses an indented point tool head.
thats it , no fuss , works every time.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Why what happened to Titanic??? Did a failed butt crimp send it careering into an iceberg???:nonod:

no....i think the better way to have gone with the titanic would have been to solder up the hull plating.....
i guess they didn`t have enough solder or flux...

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I have two types of crimper.
One type applies one crimp to the core and another to the insulation???
Thes seem to be quite common.
They other type (which I prefer) applies two crimps to the core and nothing to the insulation.

 

[NadHuh]

Can't you just prove it is a ring, fit a socket where the old cables are and just use one of the new legs as a spur?

Yea that sounds much easier but why would the other guy have wired it like this?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Perhaps he intended to spur off of the new socket, or wanted to leave it as an option, or perhaps he intended extending the ring over towards the right in the picture.

 

[Engineer54]

I am solidly in the crimping camp, both for solid and stranded cables. I'm not keen on the bulky coloured PVC insulated butt crimps etc, but the heat-shrink insulated butt crimps etc, are fine!! Personally i prefer to use the uninsulated crimps and use 2 layers of heat-shrink, the top layer colour coded to the conductor insulation. Deforming the conductor(s) within the crimp will always give you a permanent joint. Most failures in crimping operations are man errors, and we all make them, especially when access is a little restricted....


Using good quality crimps and a good quality crimping tool and you shouldn't go far wrong!! We will have literary tens of thousands of crimped terminations connecting into protective devices etc, within every Final DB and several tens of thousands more, connecting to other electrical equipment and panels. And i will be sleeping soundly when all is finished, just as i am now with all the other completed projects i've been responsible for!!