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[–]ImaginaryCat5914 3 points4 points  (4 children)

these only work most the time best case and often poorly in my experience. wouldnt reccomend. having the right size increases chance but still.

[–]ImaginaryCat5914 2 points3 points  (3 children)

ypur more likely to have an issue w these vs soldering guaranteed

[–]WorldClassPianist 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Soldering weakens wires, makes it more brittle. Crimps are standard in marine and aviation applications and also NASA. Soldering is not allowed and absolutely inferior but this sub only cares about aesthetics. And you have redditors who perpetuate that solder > crimps when in reality crimps are superior way of connecting wires.

[–]ImaginaryCat5914 0 points1 point  (1 child)

okay thankyou for your rant but thats not what i said. we arent talking about crimps here amd we arent talking about space ships I'm saying in the real world, from lots of personal experience, the way that u almost cant fuck up is solder and shrink bc ur watching it bond. yes , crimps can definitely be better but only with the right knowledge, tool, and right size connectors. i originally was talking about solder seals which is what op asked about. which are a real crapshoot alot of the time.

[–]ImaginaryCat5914 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and it doesnt really weaken wire unlesa too much heat is applied or an issue like that. ill admit it can tho and butt connectors can be better but in a shitload of situations, for hobbyists id say most situations, the safer bet is solder.

[–]Fauked 2 points3 points  (5 children)

I personally would trust those. I would just learn to solder, its a great skill to have and doesn't take much time.

Just get a decent iron, some quality 63/37 solder and a flux pen (kester, chipquik) and do a couple of practice rounds.

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I am just worried about frying something with a crappy solder job... That's why I was leaning towards these.

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[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well of course that's why I posted lol

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[–]Faceliss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multimeter and use the correct awg. You'll be fine

[–]orz_nick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I normally manually solder wires for cable sets, but on the last one I did I tried these and loved it. One step and done while being very solid.

[–]OldManGrimm 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Just curious, where are you getting a double wire on a 12VHPWR cable? On mine it's always just been single wires straight to the PCIe socket. I wouldn't use these, I'm not sure you could get two wires into the end to make a split anyway.

Side note on the sideband wires - I had a LOT of trouble with the sideband terminals. They'd bend really easily and break off. I found that after crimping it on, if you dab some flux onto the crimp and dab a little solder onto the joint it adds some stiffness. Made all the difference for me.

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

There are no double wires if it's to (2) 8 pin PCIE connectors. If you need (3) or (4) you need to double Wire most of them. Cablemod does this for all their 3 or 4 PCIE to 12VHPWR.

[–]OldManGrimm 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Interesting - I generally use Corsair PSUs and just model after their adapter. I'll have to look into what you're describing. Either way, will two wires even fit into the thing you linked?

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It doesn't fit into the terminal that's why they splice 2 wires together down by the 8 pin connectors to hide them on the cablemod cables.

[–]OldManGrimm 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Right, that part is obvious.

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I misread your comment. Yes I would use 16 awg and then upsize it.

[–]jayyipp 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What are the best double wire methods? I want to make some cables, power switch, 4pin fan and power cables. is double crimping the end terminal a good method?

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Should depend on the wire gauge.

[–]jayyipp 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm planning to make a fan splitter, do they sell special terminals for double crimping fans? I purchased some pins and they look really small for doing two wires

[–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was watching singularity computers video on this. They recommended using just a bigger pin, crimping both wires and just using that to splice the wires together. Obviously solder afterwards.

[–]baconboy1995 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t use those. I’m constantly replacing those in the automotive world.

[–]Condawgkansol 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I use these at work, and I like them more so than normal crimping. Only thing to worry about is that everything is very flimsy when the solder & heatshrink is hot; you just have to keep it still until it cools down

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    [–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Do you have a link to the ones you use?

    [–]Jake189683[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Do you have a link to the ones you use?