[Elecraft] Terminal resistance

[Mark Goldberg]

I cut a cross-section of my battery cable crimps and it essentially is one
solid block of copper:

See this page:

https://sites.google.com/site/marksrvmods/home/battery-wiring

Note that expensive crimpers are "calibrated". They make one or more
connections on sacrificial wiring and cross-section them to verify that the
crimps are good. Since I cheaped out on a crimper, I did the same to give
me some confidence it was done right. A better crimper with the correct
sized dies would not require the careful multiple crimps I had to do with
this wiring.

I've used the Powerwerx crimping tools on many 15, 30, 45 and 75A
Powerpoles and not had any issues with them. I don't solder them.

73,

Mark
W7MLG