Little thread on what’s one of the harder hands-on engineering things I’ve done in my life. A real test of dexterity and eyesight: crimping a wire to put in a connector. A JST PH connector to be precise. What’s crimping? Here is an expert tutorial iotexpert.com/jst-connector-
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The goal is to clamp that little metal bit onto the wire (24 AWG solid core) and snap it into the connector. Two crimped wires in, and you have a 2-pin female connector.
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First attempt went badly. Got the crimp on ok but then accidentally crimped the pin end that should snap into connector rather than the “wings” that go over insulation.
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Second attempt wire popped out as I was doin the first crimp (of the exposed wire). You can see the messed up crimp (top) and intact one (bottom). The middle tabs crimp over wire, longer wings (at right on top) over the insulation.
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Ok, it's just that i spent many painful years crimping them manually before realizing that crimping tools existed.
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