Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. For ...

“It has quickly become an essential tool for my DIY projects.” Electrical work has a way of exposing weak tools very quickly. No matter if you’re repairing automotive wiring, building a custom harness ...

Almost every project of mine from the last quarter century, if it has contained any wiring, has featured somewhere at least one crimp connector. There are a multiplicity of different types of crimp, ...

Use a multi-tool to strip, cut and crimp electrical wires. Stripping the plastic coating off of electrical wires is easy with a gauged wire stripper, but an electrical multi-tool stripper and crimper ...

Crimp connectors provide an easy and convenient way to connect electronics while still allowing for them to be removed and swapped without having to reach for a soldering iron and desoldering wick.

Audio and Video Cables are not just dependent on the wire or cable used, or the connectors used. The quality of the connection between the wire or cable and connector is just as important, if not more ...

The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...

Recently, I attended a presentation on connector reliability and what happens when connectors are incorrectly used. J. Duncan Glover, PhD, gave the presentation to the Boston Chapter of the IEEE ...