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<blockquote data-quote="Ronny" data-source="post: 8073811" data-attributes="member: 619486">A proper crimping, as in utilizing the needed pressure and material(s), do to the terminal and cable, what is called cold-fuse them together. Although, for the size cables and terminals we use, the amount of pressure needed is indeed immense <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> A cold fusing of say OFC cabling and an OFC terminal, actually fuses them as ONE continuous piece of cable. Sure, CCA cabling for instance with an aluminum or copper terminal can cold fuse as well; total resistivity of the piece will still be low, but a tiny bit higher than using the same material for it. Yes you can fuse different metals together, but that is a process that requires a cave and LOTS of explosives lol. Anyhow, I don&#039;t want to clog this thread up much more because it is a nice build thread //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif; but for a given piece, proper crimping has less total resistivity than a soldered piece from say one terminal&#039;s end to the other terminal&#039;s end. However, for most of the world, the difference is not too big of a concern.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ronny, post: 8073811, member: 619486"] A proper crimping, as in utilizing the needed pressure and [I]material(s)[/I], do to the terminal and cable, what is called cold-fuse them together. Although, for the size cables and terminals we use, the amount of pressure needed is indeed immense :p A cold fusing of say OFC cabling and an OFC terminal, actually fuses them as ONE continuous piece of cable. Sure, CCA cabling for instance with an aluminum or copper terminal can cold fuse as well; total resistivity of the piece will still be low, but a tiny bit higher than using the same material for it. Yes you can fuse different metals together, but that is a process that requires a cave and LOTS of explosives lol. Anyhow, I don't want to clog this thread up much more because it is a nice build thread [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG]; but for a given piece, proper crimping has less total resistivity than a soldered piece from say one terminal's end to the other terminal's end. However, for most of the world, the difference is not too big of a concern. [/QUOTE]

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