I'm a neophyte with electronics despite being in my 8th decade of life. I'm new here; so be gentle, please.
I bought a small, bare bones PSU to drive a rust removal electrolysis set up. In making a supply power cord, I chose 14/3 wire for Neutral, Load and Ground. There are 3 lugs for those wires and 4 lugs for outputs on the PSU rated at 12V 10A. I had to buy bare cord and add connectors. I had no problem putting a mains plug on the cord, but have run into problems with connectors for the AC power input.
I have a supply of various connectors. The PSU lugs are small screws; so I planned to place the 'ring' type connector on each of the wires - black, white, green - for load, neutral and ground. I chose connectors that fit the lug space that I could put the AWG 14 gauge wire. In trying to crimp connectors on the wire, I managed to lock up a pair of ratcheting crimpers designed to crimp Molex pins. I don't know how to release the crimper. Can anyone help? The crimpers were intended for use with molex pins. I chose these crimpers after being unable to crimp with other simple crimpers. I realize that I used the wrong tool, now.
I would greatly appreciate suggestions.
rh