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Re: Battery lugs
Today we tasked one of our mentors with converting all of our batteries from the screw on lugs to the crimp on ones. Because we don't have a crimping tool big enough to handle the wire, he tinned the wire and then soldered it to the lug.
As DonRotolo said in his post above, allowing the solder to wick up into the wire will make it brittle. To keep this from happening he used the lowest temperature that he could get away with and went light on the solder. Of all of the batteries that he performed this operation on, only one wire wicked up solder. That one was replaced to avoid any headaches later on in the season.
I would not attempt this on my own though. I'm decent with a soldering gun, but I would probably make the attachment too weak or allow the solder to wick up the wire.
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