New AM Shrink Tube Solder

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Originally Posted by Ernst

I won't pass too much judgement on these until I try them or see other people try them, but I'm skeptical. I don't understand what advantages these would have over a butt connector. If anything, I would think crimping on a butt connector would be even quicker and offer a better physical and electrical connection, all for less money.

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Whenever I buy a generic package of automotive crimps, the butt splices always seem to live on past everything else. Why do we really need these at all, unless we have runs longer than a spool of wire?

In any case, most of our robotics soldering involves a PC board and/or a component, and is not wire-to-wire. The relatively small number of wire-to-wire solder joints I have been part of over the years have involved things where appearance more important than substance (e.g. Christmas Door Decorations, and an illuminated 8+8+carry adder for one of Gixxy's high school projects), and most of those have been solder joints of 3 wires, not just 2. On a robot, crimping or a 3 position lever nut or a Power Pole was regularly a better solution than solder.