[Elecraft] K3 just goes off - SOLVED

[Rick Bates]

And if one uses silver based solder?

Nope I don't and won't until I need to resupply; which will be quite a while from now. 

Rick wa6nhc

Tiny iPhone keypad, sorry for typos

On Jun 24, 2012, at 4:21 PM, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:

> Does anyone have actual measurements to indicate that one is *significantly*
> better than the other?
> 
> Solder may not be as good a conductor as copper, but we're talking about a
> fraction of a millimeter of solder covering the entire mating surface of the
> cable and connector through which the current flows.
> 
> IMX working on electronic systems we chose crimping over solder because
> crimping is faster than soldering. Even so, I have found that it is as easy
> to do a bad crimp job as it is to do a bad soldering job. 
> 
> 73, Ron AC7AC  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> A properly done crimp is better electrically than solder. For one thing,
> solder is not a very good conductor. A proper crimp is actually a weld
> joining the wire to the terminal.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>