soldering iron help

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Originally Posted by rustic

The crimps, if used with the proper crimping tool, provides strain relief at the start of the crimp as the soft plastic of the crimp housing forms around the wire, held onto the outer insulation of the wire.
This moves the stress away from the crimp-wire interface.

The success of the good crimp, does rely on proper tooling, the simple cheap plier type crimp tools do not provide adequate strain relief, and I agree with your comment above if you are using this type of crimp tool.

The dual head ratchet type with insulation adjustment are the best type, but do cost more.

when you think about it a good crimp does the same as a good soldered joint then, the solid soldered section - like the crimp - is inflexible and the wire joined to it is so that takes the flex and most crimps are not well applied with quality tools! Plus a soldered joint will stand a good tug where a crimp will come apart. So at best they are the same, and generally speaking worse. I do love a good debate