Crimping tool

[beexy]

Hi everyone. Just bought one of these heavy duty crimpers from jaycar after they recommended it for what i need. Need to crimp lugs to connect dual battery system using 13mm2 wire (i believe 6 gauge from my unknowledgeable understanding).

Is this the right tool? It appears the crimping bit goes from 10 to 16mm with no inbetween. Any suggestions on something else to get also appreciated. Probably won't be used to much so something cheaper.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/Tools-%26-S...imper/p/TH1849

[4bye4]

If you are not going to use it much except for this job, it would be cheaper to measure out your cables and get a local battery supply co or auto electrician to crimp them for you. I mean if you only had say 10 to do, that works out to nearly $5 a crimp based on the crimper in your link. I recon most shops would knock em up for less than that if you supplied everything.

[abw]

I bought this fancy HD crimper off fleabay to crimp the lugs for some Anderson plugs. Made a complete mess. You'll get a much much better connection just soldering. Invest in a decent soldering iron and learn how to use it.

[Winnie]

Hi everyone. Just bought one of these heavy duty crimpers from jaycar after they recommended it for what i need. Need to crimp lugs to connect dual battery system using 13mm2 wire (i believe 6 gauge from my unknowledgeable understanding).

Is this the right tool? It appears the crimping bit goes from 10 to 16mm with no inbetween. Any suggestions on something else to get also appreciated. Probably won't be used to much so something cheaper.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/Tools-%26-S...imper/p/TH1849

Those crimpers are for proper electrical cables. Real cable sizes do go from 10 to 16mm with no in between.

[the evil twin]

What Winnie said x2

Another option is a set of flea bay hydraulic crimpers

[Winnie]

Won't they be the same though?

[liftlid]

Hi everyone. Just bought one of these heavy duty crimpers from jaycar after they recommended it for what i need. Need to crimp lugs to connect dual battery system using 13mm2 wire (i believe 6 gauge from my unknowledgeable understanding). Is this the right tool? It appears the crimping bit goes from 10 to 16mm with no inbetween. Any suggestions on something else to get also appreciated. Probably won't be used to much so something cheaper. http://www.jaycar.com.au/Tools-%26-S...imper/p/TH1849

What lugs are you wanting to crimp?

[Cuppa]

Need to crimp lugs to connect dual battery system using 13mm2 wire

Is that what other folk use? I reckon it sounds pretty light. I would usually use a minimum of 35mm2 for battery connections. 13.5mm2 might *just* suffice if the batteries are sitting next to each other, but even then could become a charging ‘bottleneck’. Telstra also used 35mm2 when they installed the dual battery system my car came with. (Since removed).

The ebay hydraulic crimpers usually come with a variety of dies, the one I have goes from 6mm up to 70mm, & I usually use the one below the size wire I’m crimping. Cost is less than the lever one linked to in the OP. Have had mine for several years now, did all the cables (up to 70mm2) in the Patrol & it’s a reliable piece of gear.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8-Ton-Hyd...item1a0494b8e5 Prices have come down since I bought mine - same as in the ebay link, but I paid around $70.

[Winnie]

I usually use the one below the size wire I’m crimping.

Hey Cuppa, probably not a good idea mate. Should always use the correct size die for the lug and cable.

[Cuppa]

Hey Cuppa, probably not a good idea mate. Should always use the correct size die for the lug and cable.

Yeah, but one of the things with these cheap hydraulic crimpers is that the die sizes don’t seem to relate that accurately to the numbers stamped into them. I’ve found that using the ‘correctly numbered one for the given wire size that whilst it holds the wire it only just does so. A proper crimp should be sufficient to ‘cold weld’ the lug & copper core together. When I use the next size down I don’t fully compress the crimper (they can be backed off at any point prior to full closure).