RE: Solder vs. Crimp

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> On mans opinion, here it goes.  When doing electrical work on boats, a
> notably hostile environment I always use both.  Crimping the fitting than
> soldering the crimp and the wire.  Afterwards applying a water proof heat
> shrink tube.  I have followed the same procedures on my car and have never
> had problems with joints.
> 
... a lot of good info being posted, but since there were a couple posts
that described crimping & soldering I thought I'd post my usual caveat ...

So far everything I've seen posted on the subject has been correct, but if
you do want to crimp and solder make sure you do it in that order ...
putting a crimp over tinned wires is likely to cause a high resistance
contact which may fail in spectacular fashion.  Years ago one of the
assembler here at KLA was tinning the stranded wire before installing the
crimp terminals for the power on/off switches ... we found out about it when
a machine caught on fire in our lab!  

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)