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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
One of the other things that hasn't been metioned is the use of ferrules with the weildmuller connectors. We used them on nearly all of our competition robot connections and have had zero issues.
Here is the white paper from Weildmuller recommending their use with stranded wires.
We import ours from China using Aliexpress but you can also get them from US electronics vendors, ebay, or Amazon.
Make sure you are using the right crimp tool and gauge ferrules. Also get 8mm long ones. |
We got our ferrules from
www.ferrulesdirect.com and our crimper from
amazon. We found that installing ferrules on our 16AWG wires (i.e. from the compressor) made them too large to work with the Weidmuller connectors.
The cable that came in our KOP had a right-angle plug on it. Once it was plugged in, wrapping a long cable-tie around the radio and the plug worked well to keep it plugged in very securely. We were able to pass the cable-tie under the radio, between it's "feet", so it could not slip off.