Thread: Easy to swap out electrical controls?
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Unread 13-12-2004, 21:01
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Re: Easy to swap out electrical controls?
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Originally Posted by Sparks333
If I remeber correctly, we got ones that had a cylinder with one end closed so the wire simply poked in, and we soldered that in. In your case, I'd say crimp first, solder next.
The ones with the cylinder are the 30 amp contacts. I'm confident that they can handle much more current than that but they are sized for a maximum of 12 gauge (per anderson). I bet you could shove 10 in there, but it wouldn't be proper and it wouldn't be pretty. You might not get all of your strands in.

For the open ones pictured above, I'd like to crimp it, but I'm not sure exactly how. I''ve only crimped stuff that was cylindrical. I know I can solder it really nicely, but I know they are meant to be crimped.
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