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1mm pitch ribbon cable crimps nicely into RJ45 and RJ11 connectors - handy if you need some short, very flexible ethernet cables.
When cutting the insulation off multi-core cable using many cuts with side-cutters you will sometimes accidently cut or nick one of the inner wires.To avoid this, use the side cutters to pinch some of the insulation, then rotate the cutters outwards before actually cutting it.By doing this rotation you will ensure the inner wires are not between your sider cutter blades.
Quote from: Psi on December 11, 2022, 11:27:43 amWhen cutting the insulation off multi-core cable using many cuts with side-cutters you will sometimes accidently cut or nick one of the inner wires.To avoid this, use the side cutters to pinch some of the insulation, then rotate the cutters outwards before actually cutting it.By doing this rotation you will ensure the inner wires are not between your sider cutter blades.This one could do with a video, lol
Always *twist* a stranded wire and then solder saturate it into a solid end (and then clean off any flux) and then cut it flush and clean at the tip, before screwing into a terminal block. If possible use captive terminal types, the ones with the ridged moving flat clamp which rides up and down with the screw and applies even pressure across the wire end, otherwise excess tightening causes screw-shaped pits in the wire end, and if it’s not been soldered as above, you get little copper strand ends falling out everywhere, which not only means short circuit risk but means the cross-sectional amperage rating of the end has decreased.
You mean stripping the cable jacket? That’s what
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Quote from: Psi on December 11, 2022, 11:27:43 amWhen cutting the insulation off multi-core cable using many cuts with side-cutters you will sometimes accidently cut or nick one of the inner wires.To avoid this, use the side cutters to pinch some of the insulation, then rotate the cutters outwards before actually cutting it.By doing this rotation you will ensure the inner wires are not between your sider cutter blades.You mean stripping the cable jacket? That’s what jacket strippers are for! Pro life hack: strip cable jacket using cable jacket strippers.
Quote from: IDEngineer on December 17, 2022, 03:05:05 pm{grin}Not visible in the ASCII art: the number of missing or broken teeth in said grin!
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Quote from: tooki on December 17, 2022, 01:35:58 pmQuote from: Psi on December 11, 2022, 11:27:43 amWhen cutting the insulation off multi-core cable using many cuts with side-cutters you will sometimes accidently cut or nick one of the inner wires.To avoid this, use the side cutters to pinch some of the insulation, then rotate the cutters outwards before actually cutting it.By doing this rotation you will ensure the inner wires are not between your sider cutter blades.You mean stripping the cable jacket? That’s what jacket strippers are for! Pro life hack: strip cable jacket using cable jacket strippers. Yes, but you wont always have access to one.It's good to know how to do things without them.
Quote from: eti on December 11, 2022, 07:43:28 amAlways *twist* a stranded wire and then solder saturate it into a solid end (and then clean off any flux) and then cut it flush and clean at the tip, before screwing into a terminal block. If possible use captive terminal types, the ones with the ridged moving flat clamp which rides up and down with the screw and applies even pressure across the wire end, otherwise excess tightening causes screw-shaped pits in the wire end, and if it’s not been soldered as above, you get little copper strand ends falling out everywhere, which not only means short circuit risk but means the cross-sectional amperage rating of the end has decreased.This is a very bad idea if that wire is supposed to sit in that terminal block for a long time. Tin slowly flows under stress, which means that the initally tight connection slowly loosens over time until it falls out. This is the same reason why soldered connections are not acceptable in house wiring. There, as well as with the terminal block, wire ferrules are the way to go.