Monday, Mar 26, 2007 at 15:55
I don't buy that either Kiwi Kia - If soldering is totally discredited, why is every electronic device on earth soldered - eg your motherboard on the PC you are using to write on here, the router , the switch if you have one, the circuit board on the hard drive, etc, etc
Methinks solder still makes the world go round. Never seen an electronic device with every connection crimped and never will.
You also state contradictory information - you say solder is brittle and will crack, but you also say solder is soft and will require re-tightening of contacts.
Copper has the very same characteristics - it is soft, and will crack when subjected to vibration. I have seen many crimp connections that have become loose and many that have been overcrimped to the extent that the copper wires have been fractured, causing the connection to fail.
I still say solder the anderson plugs. Corrosion won't happen from the flux as you heat it sufficiently to burn all the flux out of the join. You also have at least 8 B&S wire in the 50amp plug so there's a decent size of copper.
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