"Markus Baertschi" wrote in message
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Doug Dotson wrote:
Just one more thought. In a reasonably well crimped connection, the
amount
of contact area between the wire and the connector exceeds by several
times the cross sectional area of the wire itself. The crimp is not the
weak point.

I've made the experience that with soldered joints the cable brakes
easier as the solder hardens a section of it where it would be otherwise
flexible. When it get's moved around suddenly it the conductor breaks a
couple of mm of the solder joint. With crimping this does not happen.

Correct. It is a well known physical property of copper. It hardens when it
is heated.

Meindert